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Re: Which X versions did not have folder actions
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Re: Which X versions did not have folder actions


  • Subject: Re: Which X versions did not have folder actions
  • From: Nigel Garvey <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 08:46:04 +0100

Christopher Nebel wrote on Mon, 7 Jul 2003 10:57:57 -0700:

>On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 7:27 AM, Nigel Garvey wrote:

>>> 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?
>
>Quite probably. For a variety of reasons (mostly timing), most of the
>"commands" for manipulating folder actions in 10.2 are actually scripts
>in the system Script Menu. (This will be substantially improved in
>Panther.) Also, System Events must be running for them to work, so
>don't quit it.

Thanks, Chris. I zapped the "system" Script Menu items on my machine
several months ago when I uncluttered the menu for my own use. If they
were the only user access to folder actions, that would explain why I
couldn't find an on-off setting in the preferences and why there's no
contextual menu access. I would expect my own scripts to work, but maybe
you're saying that the whole folder action system depends on the original
scripts.

I never quit System Events while I'm logged into X. I regard it as the
dark side of the Finder - the split-off alter ego that's taken over some
of the latter's functions. Only together do they make an adequate
personality. ;-)

NG
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