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Re: List Folder Broken?
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Re: List Folder Broken?


  • Subject: Re: List Folder Broken?
  • From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 18:45:47 -0800

On 12/9/01 6:19 PM, "Dan Dittmann" <email@hidden> wrote:

> This has been annoying me for at least the last half hour.
>
> I am running Mac OS 10.1.1 and it would appear that the "list folder"
> command in Standard Additions is/has been partially broken. In the
> example below, invisible files are not supposed to be included in
> variable "a". This is something I **thought** I had working correctly
> under previous versions of OS X.
>

Now try it 'with invisibles'. I think you'll get a lot more of them. So
there now appear to be two types of invisible folders in OS X: invisible
folders that not invisible, and invisible folders that are invisible.
Evidently AppleScript, or the OS, has a different definition of invisible to
"not visible on the screen". Interesting.

--
Paul Berkowitz


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