plem

The shell-external is not be convinced by me to start copying files with "cp" or "ditto". Is it clear for somebody what I do wrong? I tried both shell and aka.shell

aka-shell-doesnt-work-with-cp-or-ditto

As you are sending commands to a shell, you should use the shell's syntax for filepathes rather than Max' one.

cp "/Users/plemm/Desktop/Materiaal/file" "/Users/plemm/Desktop/Materiaal/Muziek/"

should work better. But I'm afraid you'll also have to deal with the spaces in the pathes...

As you are sending commands to a shell, you should use the shell's syntax for filepathes rather than Max' one.
So,
cp "/Users/plemm/Desktop/Materiaal/file" "/Users/plemm/Desktop/Materiaal/Muziek/"
should work better. But I'm afraid you'll also have to deal with the spaces in the pathes...
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https://cycling74.com/forums/spacing-backslashes-and-shell#post-134021

I tried to deal with the spaces by putting the file and foldernames between " ".

You mean by using the shell's syntax that I'll have to skip the "Macintosh HD:"? I tried that, but unfortunately that didn't make no difference.

has to be transferred to a symbol (as in the help-example of aka.shell). But "tosymbol" will mess around with all the quote-signs. But even the next line as a message did not work:

allthough that should put all the "'s at the right position for sending 1 symbol.

Complicated. But probably with a logical solution.

Thanks for your fast response.
I tried to deal with the spaces by putting the file and foldernames between " ".
You mean by using the shell's syntax that I'll have to skip the "Macintosh HD:"? I tried that, but unfortunately that didn't make no difference.
Maybe the problem is that
cp "filename" "foldername"
has to be transferred to a symbol (as in the help-example of aka.shell). But "tosymbol" will mess around with all the quote-signs. But even the next line as a message did not work:
"cp "filename" "foldername""
allthough that should put all the "'s at the right position for sending 1 symbol.
Complicated. But probably with a logical solution.

cp -v "/Users/plemm/Desktop/Test1/Noise kopie.aif" "/Users/plemm/Desktop/Test2/"

works. The trick now is to involve "Macintosh HD:" so that also external drives can be adressed. (Fi, in my case: "Lacie 500:") So in the end my problem is less how to convert from spaces or something to something else. My problem is to what syntax shell is responding.

The line
cp -v "/Users/plemm/Desktop/Test1/Noise kopie.aif" "/Users/plemm/Desktop/Test2/"
works. The trick now is to involve "Macintosh HD:" so that also external drives can be adressed. (Fi, in my case: "Lacie 500:") So in the end my problem is less how to convert from spaces or something to something else. My problem is to what syntax shell is responding.

And here is the solution. It's a days work but this is what you get:

cp -v "/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/plemm/Test1/Noise.aif" "/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/plemm/Test2/"

And here is the solution. It's a days work but this is what you get:
The right syntax is:
cp -v "/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/plemm/Test1/Noise.aif" "/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/plemm/Test2/"

(aka.)shell doesn't work with "cp" or "ditto"?