I am not sure what you are trying to do?

#2 the :PRIV: need quotes around it?
#3 is that just an example, you are actually looking for file1 

what are you trying to set the filesystem dir to?

this looks like you are:
getting the filesystem dir
setting filesystem dir to the PRIV alias path
doing a find first
then setting filesystem dir back to what you started with



here are some samples, maybe it will help?

method run(var eventInfo Event)
 var
  fs        filesystem
  currDir   string
  aDir      string
 endvar

 ;// I think filesystem opens with no current directory?
 view(
 fs.getdir()
 )

 currDir = fs.getdir()
 currDir.view()


 aDir = getAliasPath("PRIV")
 aDir.view()

 ;//assumes a slash if wanted ;assumes not blank and is >1 size   simple
example
 if aDir.substr(aDir.size(),1) <> "\\" then
  aDir = aDir + "\\"
 endif
 aDir.view()

 fs.setDir(aDir)

 view
 (
 fs.getDir()    ;shows a slash
 )

 fs.setDir("C:\\temp")     ;I think the setDir path must exist, create a
C:\temp to test

 view
 (
 fs.getDir() ;shows    \temp
 )

 {
 also look at set drive
 Sets a specified drive as the default drive.
 setDrive ( const name String ) Logical
 Description
 setDrive sets the specified drive as the default. The method returns True
if successful; otherwise, it returns False. You can specify the drive with
a letter (C), a letter and a colon (C:), or an alias (for example: :MAST:).

 Note you can refence a full path in most filesystem commands I think


 example
 fs.delete("C:\\temp\\file1.txt")





}


endMethod


Peter <peterspammenot@whiteknight.email> wrote:
>var
>  fsy     		filesystem
>  strCurrentDirectory	string
>endvar
>
>1) strCurrentDirectory = fsy.getDir()
>2) fsy. SetDir(:PRIV:)
>3) fsy.findFirst("file1")
>4) fsy.SetDir(strCurrentDirectory) ;//doesn't work
>
>#4 doesn't work because getdir() returns the string with single "\"
>
>So what I wuld like to do is capture the current alias. How do I do 
>that? Thank you for any help.
>
>
>Peter