Re: Move a sound file
Re: Move a sound file
- Subject: Re: Move a sound file
- From: Rob Jorgensen <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 09:20:47 -0400
On 8/2/02, Roger Jolly commented:
Hi Rob,
Howdy :-)
Sure it can. Do you mean something like this:
on open TheFiles
display dialog "Sure to move to sound folder?"
tell application "Finder"
set TheFolder to folder "System:Library:Sounds" of startup disk as
alias
set TheTempFolder to make new folder at desktop with properties
{name:"tempfolder"}
end tell
repeat with TheFile in TheFiles
tell application "Finder" to move TheFile to TheTempFolder
end repeat
set PathTheFolder to "\"" & POSIX path of TheFolder & "\""
set PathTheTempFolder to "\"" & POSIX path of (TheTempFolder as alias) &
"\""
do shell script "ditto -rsrcFork " & PathTheTempFolder & space &
PathTheFolder with administrator privileges
tell application "Finder" to delete TheTempFolder
end open
Yup, that's exactly what I needed. :-)
It's a bit rough, but you'll get the idea. I won't mention the bug in POSIX
path, I think you know ;-)
Yeah, some talented scripter explained it pretty clearly in the
documentation included with this script:
<
http://macscripter.net/sb_search.t?keyword=UTF8;Posix&go=Search> ;-)
But are you sure you want to put it in the System:Library:Sounds folder? Why
not use the one in your home folder ~/Library/Sounds?
I tried that but Eudora wouldn't see the sound file (aiff) when I
placed it there. <shrug>
Hope this helps,
Roger
You bet! It works nicely! Thanks very much.
Rob
on 02-08-2002 00:50, Rob Jorgensen at email@hidden wrote:
Howdy,
I'm new to OS X and all of its inherent permissions hoops. I want to
create a droplet which will move a file to the system's Sound folder
so that it can be used by Eudora. When I attempt to do this in the
Finder, I get a dialog that says the folder can't be modified.
Can this be done with AppleScript and Terminal, or some other
combination that can be wrapped up in a droplet? If so, complete code
would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks for whatever you might offer.
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