Re: newbie: How do you copy files?
Re: newbie: How do you copy files?
- Subject: Re: newbie: How do you copy files?
- From: Nigel Garvey <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 11:52:40 +0100
"Joel May" wrote on Tue, 27 Aug 2002 20:38:13 -0500:
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I've got 'AppleScript in a Nutshell.' I can find documenation on how to
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move files and how to delete files. But how do you COPY files? I have
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a folder of files that I want to copy to another disk. I must be
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missing something.
Michelle's already mentioned the Finder's 'duplicate' command (p.228 in
your book), which was the answer you needed.
But in fact - unless this has changed in Mac OS X - 'move' and
'duplicate' do exactly the same thing when the destination's another
disk. When you 'move' a file around within the same volume, it actually
stays exactly where it is on the disk. Only the disk catalogue is altered
so that the file is now credited to a different folder. This isn't
possible when you move the file to another disk. It has to be physically
copied to that disk. The original is not then deleted from the source
disk.
NG
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