Re: Which X versions did not have folder actions
Re: Which X versions did not have folder actions
- Subject: Re: Which X versions did not have folder actions
- From: Rob Jorgensen <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 11:09:00 -0400
At 3:27 PM +0100 7/7/03, Nigel Garvey wrote:
Rob Jorgensen wrote on Mon, 7 Jul 2003 02:33:50 -0400:
At 2:17 AM -0400 7/7/03, Gary Lists wrote:
On or about 7/6/03 6:48 PM, Rob Jorgensen wrote:
I believe they were reintroduced in 10.2.
Thanks, Rob. From there on up, okey dokey.
You say *re*introduced, so maybe now the question is:
what X variants do NOT have FA's available?
As far as I know, all versions of OS X prior to 10.2 are without
folder actions.
I'm not convinced they exist in 10.2.6 either. :-\ A script to quiz
System Events' 'folder actions enabled' property returns 'true'. A script
to attach a script to a folder adds some raving to a file called
'com.apple.FolderActions.plist' in my Preferences folder. But performing
the relevant action on the folder doesn't run the script; there's no
apparent way to attach or detach actions manually; there's no apparent
way to enable or disable Folder Actions manually; and there's sod all
about folder actions in the "Help" files. Fortunately, I've never found
FA's useful anyway, but it's bemusing that people talk about them as
though they actually worked in X. Have I missed a trick somewhere?
Nigel,
Folder actions run fine here (10.2.6 and System Events 1.2). I have
one that monitors my download folder and triggers the Virex command
line utility whenever a file has finished downloading. It runs many
times in an average day, without a hitch.
These apps provide a GUI for folder action management.
Folder Actions Manager, by Tim Connor
<
http://www.webentourage.com/fam.php>
Action Manager, by Steve Roy
<
http://www.roydesign.net/actionhelper/>
-- Rob
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