It's a security feature. Mac OS 9 worked this way too; it's designed
to prevent what we affectionately (if somewhat archaically) call "the
floppy of doom".
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript and Automator Engineering
On Jun 8, 2005, at 5:00 PM, David Crowe wrote:
This is really incredible ... all these ways to attach a script
from anywhere ... and then you have to put it in a specific folder!
I found that the folder action scripts had to be in "/Library/
Scripts/Folder Action Scripts/" or "~/Library/Scripts/Folder
Action Scripts/".
