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Re: Folder Action for changing privileges

On 6/29/07 at 2:45 AM, Brett Conlon <email@hidden> spake thusly:

repeat with thisItem in theAddedItems set FilePath to quoted form of POSIX path of thisItem do shell script "chmod -R 777 " & FilePath end repeat

You may be getting bitten by a long standing gotcha of repeating by reference. Try this instead (I didn't test).

  repeat with thisItem in theAddedItems
   set FilePath to quoted form of POSIX path of (contents of thisItem)
   do shell script "chmod -R 777 " & FilePath
  end repeat


When you loop using the above form what you are really getting when you refer to "thisItem' is "item x of theAddedItems" and not a file path. The addition of "contents of" to the script forces it to resolve the reference into the actual file path it contains.



JBS
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