I have a rather simple AppleScript which works fine
with timeout of 10000 seconds
set AccountDirectories to {}
tell application id "com.apple.mail"
set theAccounts to (get name of accounts whose enabled is true)
repeat with currentAccount in theAccounts
set the end of AccountDirectories to {account directory of account currentAccount as string}
end repeat
return AccountDirectories
end tell
end timeout
This gives me the directories of accounts in Mail like
Before my favourite macOS Catalina I can get a Xojo folderitem out this with
currentAccountDirectory = GetFolderItem(AccountDirectory, FolderItem.PathTypeAbsolute)In Catalina this is nil even with full harddisk access. If I omit “as string” I get a list of files as result. But how do I make folderitems out of these? Here is my code to get a result out of the script:
[code]dim theResult as NSAppleEventDescriptorMBS = theScript.execute(theError)
if theResult <> nil then
dim ResultString as string = theResult.stringValue
if ResultString <> “” then ScriptResult = ResultString
'result is array
dim count as integer = theResult.numberOfItems
for i as integer = 1 to count
dim keyword as string = theResult.keywordForDescriptorAtIndex(i)
dim item as NSAppleEventDescriptorMBS = theResult.descriptorAtIndex(i)
if item <> nil then
dim value as NSAppleEventDescriptorMBS = item.descriptorForKeyword("seld")
if value <> nil then
ScriptResultArray.Append value.stringValue
ElseIf item.fileURLValue <> "" then
ScriptResultArray.Append(item.fileURLValue)
elseif item.stringValue <> "" then
ScriptResultArray.Append item.stringValue
end if
else
break
end if
if UBound(ScriptResultArray) = 0 then ScriptResult = ScriptResultArray(0)
next
end if[/code]
I can get the fileURLValue of the item. But the value is also available if there is no file. If I get the accounts, then the fileURLValue is “file://iCloud”. How do I get the “real” files?