AppleScript returns the last Finder's name when I ask for the front window's name

Question

I started experimenting with AppleScript just recently, following an online tutorial. Right at the beginning it is not behaving like it is predicted. I open up two Finder windows, and give the following command:

 tell application "Finder" to get the name of the front window

Then it tells me the second Finder windows name, while it is not up front, and happens to be my home folder. Then I open 3 Finder windows, and the script answers me by telling, that the front window's name is the name of the one behind all the others. (the first window I opened) Is it maybe about some settings in the AppleScript applications's preferences? Thanks in advance! Greg

Gergely Kovacs Gergely Kovacs · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-03T18:54:42

I have found some sort of solution. I had multiple Desktops opened on my Mac, and I was running AppleScript on a separate Desktop in fullscreen mode, and the Finder windows were opened on an other Desktop. When running the script on the same Desktop, everything works fine.

AppleScript returns the last Finder's name when I ask for the front window's name

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