Re: List Folder Broken?
Re: List Folder Broken?
- Subject: Re: List Folder Broken?
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 20:45:33 -0800
On Sunday, December 9, 2001, at 07:07 PM, Dan Dittmann wrote:
As suggested by Paul B. I tried running it "with invisibles and found
results similar to what Paul Berkowitz suggested.
"with invisibles" yielded the results below:
-->{".DS_Store", ".hidden", ".Trashes", ".vol", "Applications",
"automount", "bin", "cores", "Desktop DB", "Desktop DF", "Desktop
Folder", "dev", "Developer", "etc", "gmon.out", "Library", "mach",
"mach.sym", "mach_kernel", "Network", "private", "sbin", "System",
"TheVolumeSettingsFolder", "tmp", "Trash", "Users", "usr", "var",
"Volumes"}
while "without invisibles" yielded:
--> {".vol", "Applications", "automount", "cores", "Desktop Folder",
"dev", "Developer", "etc", "gmon.out", "Library", "mach", "mach.sym",
"mach_kernel", "System", "tmp", "Users", "var"}
Yeah, we know. The Mac OS X Finder uses not only the traditional
"invisible" bit, but also a special ".hidden" file that screens out
certain files and folders at the root of your startup disk, and it won't
show anything whose name begins with a dot. "List folder" respects the
first, but not the second or third. The items screened out by ".hidden"
are mostly Unix-related directories, some of which are required to boot
the system -- mess with them at your own risk.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering