Re: Panther bug: "Volumes" folder not updating
Re: Panther bug: "Volumes" folder not updating
- Subject: Re: Panther bug: "Volumes" folder not updating
- From: Gnarlodious <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 20:52:35 -0700
That's the first thing I tried and it didn't work. But now I know why,
because Finder can't access an invisible folder. So if I say:
tell application "Finder" to open folder "Applications" of the startup disk
App folder opens OK, but:
tell application "Finder" to open folder "Volumes" of the startup disk
sends error
Finder got an error: Can't get folder "Volumes" of startup disk.
Or am I doing something horribly wrong here?
-- Gnarlie
http://www.Spectrumology.com
Spectrumology is the science of chaos.
Entity Graff spoke thus:
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From the Finder dictionary -> Finder items -> Commands
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update: Update the display of the specified object(s) to match their
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on-disk representation
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update reference -- the item to update
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[necessity boolean] -- only update if necessary (i.e. a finder
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window is open). default is false
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[registering applications boolean] -- register applications.
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default is true
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So if you call update on the item before accessing it then its status
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should be updated.
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- Ken
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On Dec 21, 2003, at 9:35 PM, Gnarlodious wrote:
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> I'm having a prob with a special Applescript that mounts a server and
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> accesses it through the Volumes folder. It seems that when the server
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> is
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> ejected the Volumes folder doesn't update so an alias to a nonexistent
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> disk
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> is there and the script errors.
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> If I open the Volumes folder I glimpse the offending alias a moment
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> before
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> it disappears. This appears to be a bug in Panther.
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> After I force the folder to update this way the script runs normally.
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> Anyone know a way to force the folder to update without opening it?
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> -- Gnarlie
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> http://www.Gnarlodious.com/iTunes.html (Page generated by Applescript)
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> Gnarlodious iTunes Music
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