Re: Error-trapping alias properties
Re: Error-trapping alias properties
- Subject: Re: Error-trapping alias properties
- From: Andy Wylie <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 11:30:23 +1200
on 31/3/02 3:18 AM, Paul Berkowitz at email@hidden wrote:
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You were testing it on OS 8.6, yes? Was that without Akua and Jon's (i.e. after
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removing them from Scripting Additions folder and rebooting computer?)
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yes, I'm sure there's nothing sneaky going on apart from alias "".
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I'm sorry I missed that gem first time around,
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I'm glad you got it :)
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try
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alias (someFile as string)
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Same thing, even neater, and probably what Emmanuel was already getting at,
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in his laconic manner.
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no not the same, funny} I think Emmanuel has mentioned this is a memory
leaker under some OS.
I think Emmanuel dropped a red herring when he wrote...
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> Here is the answer I got (no typo): alias "Macintosh HDtest file".
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> As you would expect, if you test "at hand" that alias, it errors fully.
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> Does that reflect a way the Classic OS stores a "invalid but don't tell my
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> mother" alias?
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A particular version if that missing colon in the alias is not a typo.
What's odder is Paul Skinner wrote...
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>> If I empty the trash then I get...
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>> alias "OSXUsers:paulskin:Desktop:testFile"
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>> Note that the missing colon is NOT a typo.
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>> If I logout and log back in I get...
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>> alias "OSXUsers:paulskin:Desktop:testFile"
did he somehow get Emmanuel's colon?
_____________________________ Andy
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