Re: moving a folder in os X
Re: moving a folder in os X
- Subject: Re: moving a folder in os X
- From: Craig Sutherland <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 16:14:44 -0600
Paul-
I believe that you are running into permissions/privileges of the
System. Root is the owner and has sole read/write permissions to the
System folder in OS X.
You could explore the "do shell" command in Scripting additions. There
is the capability to have system administrator (root) privileges as one
of "do shell"'s parameters.
Here is a suggestion:
set theFolder to (choose folder)
set pPath to POSIX path of theFolder
do shell script " mv " & pPath & " /System/" with administrator
privileges.
There is a space after mv and before the first right slash in /System/.
To get the proper syntax for mv, type man mv in the Terminal.
As always when using admin privileges, save a bullet for yourself.
HTH
Crai9g
On Tuesday, March 12, 2002, at 01:46 PM, Paul Popovich wrote:
Hey all,
I'm using the following droplet script for moving a folder:
on open (folderRef)
tell application "Finder"
set destinationRef to (path to system folder)
move folderRef to destinationRef
end tell
end open
When I actually drop the folder onto it, I get the following message:
"item <<folder_name>> is used by Mac OS X and cannot be opened."
anybody know what I'm doing wrong here?
Regards,
Paul.
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