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Re: Duplicate with replacing and a full trash
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Re: Duplicate with replacing and a full trash


  • Subject: Re: Duplicate with replacing and a full trash
  • From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 09:24:37 -0700

On 12/7/01 6:51 AM, John Tuttle <email@hidden> wrote:

>Tell app "Finder"
>Select folder "My Drive:My folder"
>Duplicate selection to folder "External Drive:External Folder" with
>replacing
>End tell
>
>
>It works just dandy save for the fact that the replaced file gets placed in
>the trash and I then have to empty the trash. Not such a big deal but this
>does not occur if I dragged the folder to the external drive by hand and
>select the replace option when the dialog pops up.
>
>Any takers?

Just add a line to the script to empty the trash.

--Michelle

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