Re: "move" in OS X
Re: "move" in OS X
- Subject: Re: "move" in OS X
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 13:57:10 -0700
On 4/14/03 1:32 PM, "John Delacour" <email@hidden> wrote:
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At 11:24 am -0400 14/4/03, Hellum Timothy wrote:
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> Hello,
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> We are trying to migrate an OS 9 script to X and are having trouble with
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> the "move" command. I hope that this question hasn't been asked too much on
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> this particular issue, but I wonder if anyone might be able to poke a few
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> holes in the following scripts to demo why it isn't working in X.
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What is copyFile? I see no handler with that label ?
It's a command from Jon's Commands. There were a lot of problems in various
OS 8.x versions (maybe some 9.x too) with the Finder's move and copy
commands. Often the Finder would lag so far behind that the file would not
exist yet in the new folder when the next AppleScript line came due and
you'd error. So Jon's and Akua were much more reliable. (I see large
segments of script in a Finder tell block that use no Finder commands at
all, BTW. Possibly the Jon's and get info commands replaced earlier Finder
commands.)
The Classic Jon's you have won't work in OS X. There is a developer version
of Jon's for OS X. But you shouldn't need it just or copying or moving or
deleting. This is one thing much improved in OS X (although some versions of
AS in OS 10.0 and maybe 10.1.0 couldn't 'move'.)
Try changing those copyFile commands to 'duplicate' or 'move' as preferred.
Similarly change 'deleteFile' to 'delete', but they must all be inside a
Finder tell block. If you really want to delete without putting in the
trash, you can use
do shell script "rm " & quoted form of POSIX path of file_to_move
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Paul Berkowitz
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