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Your application will inherently be PC specific, as the device letters can be adjusted local to each PC. I would like it (or another application) to then be able to take a Windows file path which I get sent and convert it to an OSX path which I can then go to in Finder. Networkdrive/rootfolder/sub-folder/file) and convert it to the Windows format for me to paste into an email.

I work in an office with PC users so I want an application which I can drop a folder/file onto that will extract the server file path (eg. Set mytext to searchReplace(mytext, "smb://", "\\\\")

Thanks to: -using-automator-windows-to-mac. Set mylocation to searchReplace(mytext, findIt, replaceIt) Set mytext to searchReplace(mytext, ">", "") Set mytext to searchReplace(m圜lip, ".", "") Set AppleScript's text item delimiters to OldDelims Set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ReplaceString Set AppleScript's text item delimiters to SearchString Set OldDelims to AppleScript's text item delimiters On searchReplace(theText, SearchString, ReplaceString) Script: “Convert Windows to Mac path and open it” “Convert Windows to Mac path and open it” This enables me to select a path, right-click and choose the appropriate service from the “Services…” menu, which I named: In Mac OS Automator I created three Apple scripts that run as a service.

So, I reversed the hack above and added a call to open the folder to the file. Currently, I manually navigate to it by translating the path in my little head, which hurts. \\servername\MLS\Timbers\IrrefutableProofTimbersAreBestTeamInMLS.pdfīut that’s a stupid thing to do over and over, so I found some examples online (this forum and others) and hacked it until I got it to work a few ways (see below).Ī related problem is when Windows users send me a file path and I want to quickly access it. Into an email, then manually convert it to a Windows path: Smb://servername/MLS/Timbers/IrrefutableProofTimbersAreBestTeamInMLS.pdf Got a wild hair to solve this problem since it's been bugging me… first, I'll recap, then provide a solution +:įrom a Mac, I want to copy a file path on a network share into an email so that its clickable by poor Windows recipients.