Re: Really delete a file via AppleScript
Re: Really delete a file via AppleScript
- Subject: Re: Really delete a file via AppleScript
- From: David Durkee <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 11:17:00 -0500
I don't consider myself particularly warned, since you never specified
what the "certain program" was. Reminded me of a typical Department of
Homeland Security terrorism warning.
By the way, if you haven't deleted the files in the trash yet, there's
a good chance they still have their resource forks. I'm not familiar
with ditto, but if it's a standard Unix command, most of them don't
copy or recognize resource forks. If you have developers tools
installed, there's a resource-fork-aware copy command that can copy a
directory and keep resource forks, file types, etc. intact. It's in
/Developer/Tools, and you might have to specify the full path to the
command to use it. I haven't figured out the exact syntax for copying a
directory, but I did this:
/Developer/Tools/CpMac -r -p Scripts /Scripts
to copy a Scripts folder in my home directory to the root directory.
David
On Sunday, August 3, 2003, at 10:05 AM, John Delacour wrote:
At 8:48 am -0400 3/8/03, Paul Skinner wrote:
It's rude to empty people's trash without asking.
I might mention, since it's painfully topical for me at this moment,
that it's also extremely rude to remove a whole /Users directory to
/.Trashes/501, in other words to wipe out say 10 years' worth of
personal stuff.
A certain program did just that for me about an hour ago and you can
imagine roughly how I felt about that.
If I had panicked, that would have been that. If I had restarted the
machine, I would have lost EVERYTHING.
I made a lucky guess and put into practice the tiny bit of UNIX I
know. First I did a find in the Terminal looking for a unique
filename that I knew I'd lost in the conflagration. This put me onto
/.Trashes/501/ and there, sure enough was /jd/ with all its contents.
I then created a folder "Rescued" on my newly wiped out Desktop and
typed
sudo ditto jd ~/Desktop/Rescued
That's not the end of it. None of the files moved to .Trashes any
longer has a resource fork. That is toasted in the move, so my
careful use of ditto to duplicate the files was in vain.
How much I've lost for ever, I haven't yet dared to investigate. At
least I've recovered all 350 Mb of mail, even if all the toc resources
are up in smoke.
Be warned!
JD
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