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Re: Delete me...


  • Subject: Re: Delete me...
  • From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 18:20:06 +0200

At 11:03 AM +0200 08/06/03, EBI Aktivitet wrote:
>Having trouble with the simplest script...
>
>tell application "Finder"
>
> delete file "Path to the file to delete"
>
>end tell
>
>This will work well, just to suddenly stop working. Finder will pop up a
>dialog, informing that it's preparing to move the file to trash, and give me
>an error code of 2.
>
>The file to delete always has the same name and path. I've noticed that some
>properties of the file seem locked as well. Like trying to set the files
>name for example. This strange behaviour then vanishes without warning, and
>all works well, deleting, renaming, etc.
>
>What could possibly be going on?

Did you try to have Finder "update" the file before addressing it?

Emmanuel
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