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Posted: **Thu Oct 31, 2013 8:52 pm**

Hello all

I have a need to save a fields contents to a .txt file and have that figured out. What I am having issues with is the right way to save the file in a specific folder. Right now its placed in the documents folder and Im wondering how to have a folder created within the documents folder and have the .txt file saved there. Any help would be appreciated. This is what I have functioning

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Put  Field "fld_title"of card "Step one"Into URL ("file:" & specialFolderPath("documents") & slash & "Title" & ".txt")

Posted: **Thu Oct 31, 2013 9:08 pm**

Hi Rod,
Just create the folder first:

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on mouseUp
   create folder  specialFolderPath("documents") & slash & "1Folder"
      Put  Field "fld_title"of card "Step one"Into URL ("file:" & specialFolderPath("documents") & slash & "1Folder/Title" & ".txt")
end mouseUp

Simon

Posted: **Thu Nov 07, 2013 10:28 pm**

Works great! Thank you very much for the assistance.

Posted: **Thu Nov 07, 2013 10:40 pm**

Simon wrote:Hi Rod,
Just create the folder first

Can someone explain why we need to do that? I'm used to bash scripting, where you don't have to create a directory before writing a file to it. Would it not be simpler for LiveCode to create a directory if one does not exist?

Posted: **Thu Nov 07, 2013 10:54 pm**

I think you want to put that in the Feature Request forum.

Simon

Posted: **Thu Nov 07, 2013 11:02 pm**

Simon wrote:I think you want to put that in the Feature Request forum.

Simon

Will do. Just wasn't sure if there was some particularly important reason it didn't already work that way. Thanks!

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