Re: Duplicate with replacing and a full trash
Re: Duplicate with replacing and a full trash
- Subject: Re: Duplicate with replacing and a full trash
- From: "Marc K. Myers" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 11:12:19 -0500
- Organization: [very little]
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Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 07:51:16 -0600
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From: "John Tuttle" <email@hidden>
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To: email@hidden
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Subject: Duplicate with replacing and a full trash
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A curious situation that I'm sure someone has run across.
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I've written a short script which duplicates a large folder of files to an
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external hard drive. I use the following AppleScript code:
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Tell app "Finder"
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Select folder "My Drive:My folder"
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Duplicate selection to folder "External Drive:External Folder" with
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replacing
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End tell
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It works just dandy save for the fact that the replaced file gets placed in
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the trash and I then have to empty the trash. Not such a big deal but this
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does not occur if I dragged the folder to the external drive by hand and
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select the replace option when the dialog pops up.
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Any takers?
Both the dialog and putting the replaced file in the trash serve the
same purpose: to give you a chance to back out if you've made a mistake.
If you want to avoid emptying the trash I suggest you use the
"deleteFile" command from Jon's Commands. With the appropriate
parameters it deletes bypassing the trash and without warnings.
Marc K. Myers <email@hidden>
http://AppleScriptsToGo.com
4020 W.220th St.
Fairview Park, OH 44126
(440) 331-1074
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