• Open Menu Close Menu
  • Apple
  • Shopping Bag
  • Apple
  • Mac
  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • Watch
  • TV
  • Music
  • Support
  • Search apple.com
  • Shopping Bag

Lists

Open Menu Close Menu
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Lists hosted on this site
  • Email the Postmaster
  • Tips for posting to public mailing lists
Re: filtering a list of items with Finder
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: filtering a list of items with Finder


  • Subject: Re: filtering a list of items with Finder
  • From: Andy Wylie <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 10:33:20 +1300

on Sun, 27 Oct 2002 18:17:14 +0900 Gakuji Ohtori wrote:

>On 2002.10.27, at 04:52 PM, Andy Wylie wrote:
>
>>>> desktop's items whose name is not in ((disks's name as list) &
>>>> trash's
>>>> name)
>>>
>>> It works in most cases, but there may be a file or folder on the
>>> desktop that has the same name with one of the disks.
>>>
>> substitute id for name
>
>Finder reports an error when I try to access the id property of an
>item. I checked Finder's dictionary, but id was not in the property
>list for Finder items. The id property seems to be discontinued.
>
just when I found a use for it :)

>In this case, the index property can probably be substitued for the
>name property.

desktop's items whose index is not in (disks's index & trash's index)

works under 8.6
>
>>> In OS X 10.2, every item seems to have no value in the description
>>> property.
>>
>> write your own?
>
>For example,
>
> tell application "Finder" to get description of item 1 in desktop
>
>returns
>
> missing value
>
>and the returned value is the same for other items.
>
interesting, I wonder if they intend to use it again. I guess this info was
gleaned from the desktop DB in classic.


_____________________________ Andy
_______________________________________________
applescript-users mailing list | email@hidden
Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/applescript-users
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.

  • Prev by Date: Re: filtering a list of items with Finder
  • Next by Date: Re: "Duplicate file name. [-48]"
  • Previous by thread: Re: filtering a list of items with Finder
  • Next by thread: Re: filtering a list of items with Finder
  • Index(es):
    • Date
    • Thread