Re: moving files from one volume to another?
Re: moving files from one volume to another?
- Subject: Re: moving files from one volume to another?
- From: Bryan <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 13:33:03 -0400
- Organization: Apex Radiology
So, you can tell a remote finder to move a file on it's own disk, How
about for PC's?
Has anyone thought about sending SMB by AppleScript to PC's?
garbanzito wrote:
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at 6/18/01, 5:35 PM -0400, they whom i call Bill Christens-Barry wrote:
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>What's the best way in AppleScript to move a file (or folder of or
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>list of files) from one volume to another? The Jon's Commands osaxen
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>doesn't support moving across volumes with the "moveFile" command,
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>so currently I must do a "copyFile" followed by a "deleteFile".
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this is basic file system reality. "moving" a file leaves
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the actual file data in the same place on the disk and just
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changes the file system's database so it appears the file
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resides in another folder.
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that kind of manipulation is impossible between volumes,
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whether the volumes are on the same physical disk or not.
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so you can only copy it, then delete the original. same is
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true manually in the Finder.
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steve harley email@hidden
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