How to get the filename after a save command

[Sleiman]

Greetings readers,

I used the following Applescript command to save an email message (in Outlook) as a file in a special folder:

save objInSelection in myAttachmentsFolder

However, I don't know how to get the filename under which the message was saved. Any idea how?

Normally, the filename is the message subject after translating some characters (such as : to - ) and adding a suffix such as [1] if the original filename already exists. So for example, the first time a message titled "Re: WTC" was saved, its filename was "Re- WTC.eml". The second time it was "Re- WTC[1].eml".

So, the question is: how can I get the name of the file just saved?

Thanks!

Sleiman

 

[Sleiman]

Greetings,

Checking the file listing in the folder in which the file was saved and selecting the latest file does the job.

AppleScript's code to find the latest file in a folder is highly inefficient (coding-wise). But the shell command comes to the rescue:

set sLatestFilename to do shell script "ls -t " & myAttachmentsFolder & " | head -n 1"

Best,
Sleiman