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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: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 16:20:30 -0800

At 10:55 -0600 11/13/00, Greg Strange wrote:
>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.

The desktop trashcan icon doesn't represent a real folder...it represents
the union of the Trash folders of all the mounted volumes (even if "all the
mounted volumes" is one volume). Since the icon doesn't represent a real
folder, it would not surprise me to learn that one can't attach folder
actions to it.

You *might* succeed by making all the trash folders visible, opening them,
and attaching folder actions to each. On the other hand, you might find
the result visually "mildly annoying."

I don't know whether Folder Actions Plus is willing to put a folder action
on each of the actual (invisible) Trash folders, or not.

--John
--
John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA


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