Re: "original item of" activates Finder!?
Re: "original item of" activates Finder!?
- Subject: Re: "original item of" activates Finder!?
- From: Jon Pugh <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 09:18:44 -0800
At 12:28 PM +0100 11/18/2001, Harald E Brandt wrote:
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Why is it so that the property "original item of <class alias file>" in the Finder terminology cases Finder to activate? It makes unattended scheduled scripts appear pretty disturbing!
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(I currently use AppleScript 1.6. Is this a bug in all versions of AS?)
It's the alias manager. When you resolve an alias, it could point to a network disk, and as such, it may need to put up UI for you to log into that disk, and comes to the front just in case.
Jon