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Re: How to get information from the download manager?



On 6/30/05, Manish Padmajan <email@hidden> wrote:
> I wanted to get the information of the downloaded items from the download
> manager.
> As you mentioned Safari does store the download history in
> "~/Library/Safari/Downloads.plist"  file.

This is an implementation detail of Safari, you shouldn't rely on this
if you can get away with it.

> But one thing I noticed is Safari doesn't update the Downloads.plist file
> with the download history till Safari is open.  Once Safari is closed, the
> history is written to the Downloads.plist file.
> 
> I wanted to know is there any way out to get the download information
> without closing Safari.

I don't believe there is a way to do this. You should probably file an
enhancement request to add the downloads stuff to Safari's AppleScript
dictionary.

 -- Finlay
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