We'll likely get even more questions like this, which could then be closed as duplicates of this question. I didn't vote to close this question, because many of the solutions in the other questions are affected by either of the two bugs mentioned above. How do I create files in Finder without Terminal?.If it was set to folders or files, you'd have to always secondary-click some folder or file. If the input type was set to no input, the service wouldn't show up in context menus. You could also wrap the script as an Automator service, but there is another bug where the shortcuts for Automator services don't always work until you hover over the services menu from the menu bar. Insertion location as alias is desktop as aliasĬontainer of item 1 of (get selection) as alias is desktop as alias So neither of these ways of checking if the desktop is selected work reliably: tell application 'Finder' One workaround is to move focus to another application and back, but it results in a visual glitch. If you open a new Finder window, select some items in it, and run tell app 'Finder' to selection in AppleScript Editor, the result is the items selected in some window behind the frontmost window (or an empty list). Finder ignores new windows when getting the insertion location and selection properties.

There is a bug in 10.7 and 10.8 that affects many other scripts and Automator services like this.

If result is true or number of windows is 0 then

Value of attribute 'AXFocusedWindow' is scroll area 1 You could assign a shortcut to a script like this: tell application 'System Events' to tell process 'Finder'

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