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Re: can't set path of original of alias file?
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Re: can't set path of original of alias file?


  • Subject: Re: can't set path of original of alias file?
  • From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 15:32:23 +0100

At 7:26 PM +0100 1/3/02, Wayne Clodfelter wrote:
>
>Hopefully the comments and script below are self explanatory. The script is
>failing when I try to set the path of the original to which the alias
>points, ie, point the alias at an identical original on the new disk.

I would not try to change a "read-only" property. That's what "[r/o]" means
in the "original item" property of the "Class alias file" entry of Finder's
dictionary.

Instead, I would trash the no good alias, and I would make a new, correct, one.

Emmanuel
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