Folder List Macro

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Folder List Macro

There are two approaches to do the same thing in this macro, the second of which is disabled.

The second, which is all AppleScript, works fine.

But I can't get the first (which is two actions) to work the same way. The AppleScript reads the list of selected folders as a string of characters.

So the Choose a Folder action is returning its list differently but I don't know how. It seems to list each folder on a line of its own. But AppleScript doesn't seem to like that.

Any clue how to rewrite the AppleScript in the two-action version to match the one-action version? TIA

Folder List.kmmacros (3.9 KB)

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This seems to do the job:

set kmInst to system attribute "KMINSTANCE"
tell application "Keyboard Maestro Engine"
    set theSelection to getvariable "localFolders" instance kmInst
end tell

-- Split the single string into a list using linefeed as the delimiter
set folderList to paragraphs of theSelection

-- Loop through each folder in the list
repeat with aFolder in folderList
    if length of aFolder > 0 then -- check if the line is not blank
        display dialog aFolder
    end if
end repeat
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Thanks, @noisnieil. That does indeed solve my problem.

Especially appreciate the if statement to catch empty paragraphs. When I select a single folder, there isn't one but if I select multiple folders there is. That would have driven me nuts!

Thanks, again!

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