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Re: attach folder action to trash
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Re: attach folder action to trash


  • Subject: Re: attach folder action to trash
  • From: Greg Strange <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 10:55:46 -0600

on 11/13/00 12:07 PM, Matt Binkowski at email@hidden wrote:

> hi,
>
> my neighbor raised an interesting point last night and i'm looking for
> ideas. he just bought an imac and discovered that his little boy had
> accidentally moved the system resources file to the trash and stopped him
> just before he could have emptied the trash. is there any way to attach a
> folder action to the trash? when i control click the trash, it claims it is
> a folder but does not allow attaching a script.

Well, first of all, you would have to leave the trash window open all the
time so that the folder action would work. But it is my understanding that
you can't attach a folder action to the trash.

Why not just lock everything in the system folder?

Greg Strange

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