Use HyperLink(mailto:...) to open a file?

Question

A question was posted previously about linking to an image file. The HYPERLINK function allows this if the image is on a web server and can be accessed via http:// but you can't use HYPERLINK to access a local file on your computer (or at least I can't seem to). The HYPERLINK function will also take a mailto: command and will open up your mail client with the address, subject, and message of your desire. I was wondering if it could also use the "attachment=..." part of the mailto command to attach a file to the email. Thus you could bring up a local image in your email client. I failed at getting it to work but I may have been formatting the command wrong. Anyone have experience with the proper formatting or anyone know if this is not a supported functionality?

Answer 1

As System Events returns an URL when we ask it for a file's properties, I tried to use this URL with no results but the files where on a single machine.
Maybe it behaves differently on a network.
To get the URL I uses this script:
set thefile to "Western 4:photos ???:PA030012.JPG"
tell application "System Events" to get URL of disk item thefile
the result is something like:
"file://localhost/Volumes/Western%204/photos%20%3F%3F%3F/PA030012.JPG"
%20 is the description of the space character
%3F is the description of the question mark character
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE vendredi 17 avril 2009 21:56:16)