Re: Add command to Contextual Menu?
Re: Add command to Contextual Menu?
- Subject: Re: Add command to Contextual Menu?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 00:05:37 EST
This is a more generic suggestion, but may be easier on balance to implement
(sorry if someone already suggested this). Make a pop-up folder and put
aliases to your destination folders in it. Then drag the icons from the
desktop to them.
Jeff Baumann
email@hidden
www.linkedresources.com
If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
In a message dated 1/29/01 3:11:42 AM, you wrote:
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I want to add a command to my Finder contextual menu that will move selected
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items to one of the folders in my favourites folder.
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If that's a bit unclear, here's an example: I have a bunch of graphic files
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scattered across my desktop. I want to clean them up and move them to
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selected folders (Desktop Pictures, my Web page picturebank, etc.). I can
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select several files and drag them, using spring-loaded folders, to the
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folders I wish. But it would be faster to simply select a number of items on
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the desktop, then have a contextual menu item "Move to Favourites > " that
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would allow me to move the items to any of the folders defined in my
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Favourites folder in the System Folder.
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Is there anything around that will let me do this? I'm not sure how to add
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items to the Contextual Menus, but aren't they AppleScript-based?
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I've searched applescriptcental, the AppleScript Guidebook, and AppleScript
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Help, and can't find anything on point.
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TIA