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: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 12:15:35 -0800
At 9:24 -0700 12/7/2001, Michelle Steiner wrote:
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On 12/7/01 6:51 AM, John Tuttle <email@hidden> wrote:
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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?
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Just add a line to the script to empty the trash.
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--Michelle
Not in a distributed script. An amazing number of people think the trash
is some sort of storage locker. For those of us who don't, it wouldn't be
a problem.
--John