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Re: Finding folder from its id
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Re: Finding folder from its id


  • Subject: Re: Finding folder from its id
  • From: JollyRoger <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 11:54:28 -0600

On 3/23/2002 11:40 AM, "Paul Berkowitz" <email@hidden> wrote:

> However, it's not going to work right. The classic Finder screws up again.
> (It's always doing that.)
>
> At least in OS 9.2.2, AppleScript 1.8.2b3, the Finder claims there's no such
> folder when I move it off the desktop into another folder. If I then select
> it there and get the id of item 1 of the selection, it gives me the correct
> id. It just can't find it when I ask for it. Well, you could make THAT the
> basis of an error trap, I suppose, but it would be totally unreliable. I
> wouldn't. Yet another Finder bug. (The OS X Finder doesn't have the id
> property for item, so no feature, no bug. You'd have to find another method
> when you move there anyway.)

Where does it say that this ID should act like an alias and always point to
a file after the file is moved?? I'm not so sure this is a bug...
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