Re: Finding folder from its id
Re: Finding folder from its id
- Subject: Re: Finding folder from its id
- From: nick weldin <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 21:56:55 +0000
Well at least you are getting the sort of results i am. If you direct
it to the folder the folder is in then it finds it! Not much use if
you don't know where it is already. You can search through nested
folders by saying
tell application "Finder"
get (the first item whose id = 289345) of entire
contents of folder "test" of startup disk
end tell
but if you ask it to
get (the first item whose id = 289345) of entire contents of startup disk
(which I know may be slow but should work) the machine hangs - I left
it while I had tea just in case it was taking an incredibly long
time, but no it was on the road to nowhere.
Unfortunately this scripting will be looking for the file that
someone else has saved - I know I can ask them to save it within a
certain area in the machine, but the reason we need the script is for
the people who don't do that! absolute novices who may have
difficulty navigating (or forget) where they have put stuff.
I may go for multiple users and limit them to just saving in their
document folder but that gives me another layer of admin that I could
do without.
Cheers
Nick
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