Linking source text property in AE CS6 to external text document

Question

Hi,
I would like to load text from an external .txt file into the Source Text property. I've seen multiple ways to do this around the web, but it seems like it's changed in CS6. (All the examples I've found are for CS4 or CS5.)
I'm on a macbook pro. The .txt file (data.txt) is on the desktop.
This is what I've tried to map into the Source Text property:
1)
myPath = "/data.txt"; try{ $.evalFile (myPath); eval(thisComp.name); }catch (err){ "not found" }
Here I get "not found".
2)
myPath = "/c/data.txt"; $.evalFile(myPath)
Here I get the error: "File or folder does not exist".
The name of my comp is "sc100" and the text file says:
sc100 = "My Text"; ;
Is there a proper way to do this in CS6? Or am I just doing it wrong?
- KolibriEirik

Answer 1

I've been trying the entire afternoon with this expression and also Harry Frank's and haven't been able to make it work, I even imported an old project where it worked fine and in that comp it still does, but the new one doesn't. I moved the data file to the location where I have the one for the old project and I was able to make it work, however I can't leave it there becasue I'm doing this project in a different machine,
This are the expressions that I have tried so far:
myPath = ~/Desktop/combinedcaptions.txt
try{
$.evalFile (myPath);
eval(thisComp.name);
}catch (err){
"not found"
try
myPath="~/Desktop/captions.txt";
$eval(thisComp.name)[0];
catch
(err)
"missing"
if ($.os.indexOf("Mac") != -1)
myPath = "/Volumes/750GB/Mount Sinai_Carousel_David/Expressions/";
else
myPath = "file://c:\\\\Expressions\\";
myPath += "CombinedCaptions.txt";
$.evalFile (myPath);
eval(thisComp.name)[0];
Only the third one worked, but just as long I placed it in a different directory, which I can't.
Can anyone help? I'm due to deliver over a 100 captions tomorrow.