Use Finder keyword to open a new finder window.

[mrchow19910319]

Instead of just switching app to finder, maybe we should just let it open a new finder window up front.

 

What do you guys think??

Or is there  an apple script I can write to achieve this? 

[vitor]

3 hours ago, mrchow19910319 said:

Or is there  an apple script I can write to achieve this?

 

tell application "Finder"
  make new Finder window
  set the target of the front Finder window to (POSIX file "/tmp")
  -- or -- set the target of the front Finder window to home
end tell

 

[mrchow19910319]

tell application "Finder"
	make new Finder window
	set the target of the front Finder window to (POSIX file "/Users/zhouxiang/Downloads")
	-- or -- set the target of the front Finder window to home
end tell

I modded it a bit to show download folder every time. It works, but the finder window does not appear on top of every other window, is there a way to do that ? 

[vitor]

You don’t need the -- or -- line. That was an example.

 

19 minutes ago, mrchow19910319 said:

the finder window does not appear on top of every other window, is there a way to do that ?

 

Unsure if you can bring only one window to the top, but you can bring them all with activate:

tell application "Finder"
  make new Finder window
  set the target of the front Finder window to (POSIX file "/Users/vitor/Downloads")
  activate
end tell

 

[mrchow19910319]

@vitor okay now the 1st time you execute the finder window will not appear up front, once you bring it upfront manually, then after that everytime it will appears upfront.