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    <p>Does any one know how I could retrieve a list of selected files from the active finder window? I have no experience at all with AppleScript and your help will be appreciated!</p> <p>I tried using the following code from another answer on SO, but I could get it to return anything at all. No error, no results, just nothing. I understand that even if it did work, then it would just get me the first file, I need the complete selection of files..</p> <pre><code>NSAppleScript *script = [[NSAppleScript alloc] initWithSource: @"tell application \"Finder\"\n" "set selectedItems to selection\n" "if ((count of selectedItems) &gt; 0) then\n" "set selectedItem to (item 1 of selectedItems) as alias\n" "container window of selectedItem\n" "end if\n" "end tell\n"]; if (script == nil) { NSLog(@"failed to create script!"); } NSAppleEventDescriptor *result = [script executeAndReturnError:&amp;errorMessage]; if (result) { // POSIX path returns trailing /'s, so standardize the path NSString *path = [[result stringValue] stringByStandardizingPath]; } for (id key in errorMessage) { NSLog(@"key: %@, value: %@", key, [errorMessage objectForKey:key]); } </code></pre> <p><strong>Edit</strong></p> <p>I was printing out the error dictionary before executing the script, that is why there was no error. This is what I get when I select two files in a finder window:</p> <pre><code>2013-07-23 13:36:14.817 myAPP[12959:303] key: NSAppleScriptErrorMessage, value: Finder got an error: Can’t get container window of document file "myAPP-logo-white-n-black.png" of folder "untitled folder" of folder "Desktop" of folder "Shumais" of folder "Users" of startup disk. 2013-07-23 13:36:14.817 myAPP[12959:303] key: NSAppleScriptErrorRange, value: NSRange: {151, 16} 2013-07-23 13:36:14.817 myAPP[12959:303] key: NSAppleScriptErrorBriefMessage, value: Can’t get container window of document file "myAPP-logo-white-n-black.png" of folder "untitled folder" of folder "Desktop" of folder "Shumais" of folder "Users" of startup disk. 2013-07-23 13:36:14.818 myAPP[12959:303] key: NSAppleScriptErrorNumber, value: -1728 2013-07-23 13:36:14.818 myAPP[12959:303] key: NSAppleScriptErrorAppName, value: Finder </code></pre> <p>Thank You! Shumais</p>
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    2. COHi, So I just realised that my and the other answer is getting you the container of the first file. Because for my part I red the code you supplied and corrected it rather than pay attention to you saying you need a **path list** So I have update the answer with some code that gets the list
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