Re: How to tell if a file is busy?
Re: How to tell if a file is busy?
- Subject: Re: How to tell if a file is busy?
- From: Chris Page <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 00:07:00 -0700
nigh on 2001.09.28 4:42 AM, Bill Cheeseman at email@hidden
wrote:
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AppleScript has always provided a standard way for applications to deal with
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this problem, but only a few applications implement it (e.g., FileMaker Pro,
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Font Reserve). Namely, the With Transaction event (and the related Abort
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Transaction event).
Unfortunately, that doesn't help with how to tell whether a file is
currently open by any other process, regardless of whether it even supports
AppleScript.
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Chris Page
Mac OS Lead, Palm Desktop
Palm, Inc.
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