AppleScript: Saving text output to a file
Hi all,
I am trying to save some output to a text file from AppleScript. Based on some postings I've found, I've been trying variations on this where theSubjects has some formatted text in it.:
tell application "TextEdit"
activate
make new document
set text of document 1 to theSubjects
save document 1 in file (("/Users/karl/Desktop/") & "ListSubjects.rtf")
end tell
The text makes it into TextEdit as I intended, but when the script tries to save the file, I'm getting "The document "Untitled" could not be saved as "/Users/karl/Desktop/ListSubjects.rtf". You don't have permission."
This error is consistent across all output directories that I have tried. I cannot find any sign that there are actual permissions issues.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thank you.
Yes, use the scheduler and schedule the report,
do the bursting into FTP or
schedule the report to run and run it into FTP as a single FILE.
First option, you need to provide the query , with FTP server name, username, password etcccc.
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