Re: Use AppleScript to Hide Applications/System Folder
Re: Use AppleScript to Hide Applications/System Folder
- Subject: Re: Use AppleScript to Hide Applications/System Folder
- From: "Marc K. Myers" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 13:12:01 -0500
- Organization: [very little]
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From: "Czaban, Keith" <email@hidden>
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To: "'email@hidden'"
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<email@hidden>
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Subject: Use AppleScript to Hide Applications/System Folder
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Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 16:26:30 -0500
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I was told by a professor here that there is a way to use AppleScript to
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make folders "hidden". Any help would be appreciated. I need to eliminate
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the student users errors that occur daily here....
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Thanks...
You can use the File Visibility OSAX (a third-party scripting addition)
to make files and folders invisible. This requires caution because
things made invisible may also be inaccessible to applications and
system functions. Making the System Folder invisible, for instance, is
a real disaster.
Marc K. Myers <email@hidden>
http://AppleScriptsToGo.com
4020 W.220th St.
Fairview Park, OH 44126
(440) 331-1074
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