Re: Delete me...
Re: Delete me...
- Subject: Re: Delete me...
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 19:31:09 +0200
At 5:37 PM +0200 09/06/03, EBI Aktivitet wrote:
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>> Having trouble with the simplest script...
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>> tell application "Finder"
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>> delete file "Path to the file to delete"
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>> end tell
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>> This will work well, just to suddenly stop working. Finder will pop up a
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>> dialog, informing that it's preparing to move the file to trash, and give me
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>> an error code of 2.
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>> The file to delete always has the same name and path. I've noticed that some
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>> properties of the file seem locked as well. Like trying to set the files
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>> name for example. This strange behaviour then vanishes without warning, and
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>> all works well, deleting, renaming, etc.
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>> What could possibly be going on?
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> Did you try to have Finder "update" the file before addressing it?
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Hmm... Update... Would that be like doing something unprovocative, like
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"Exists", "get name" etc? Enlighten me, please!
Unprovocative, I don't know ... What I'm sure is, "update" updates something: for instance "update" forces the update of sizes and modification dates. It would not be too surprising that things be locked in some sense once a file was changed and the Finder did not update the info about it. Still, I don't know, I just guess.
Did you try that?
Emmanuel
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