Re: Path To blessed items (OSX and OS9): Odd or Normal?
Re: Path To blessed items (OSX and OS9): Odd or Normal?
- Subject: Re: Path To blessed items (OSX and OS9): Odd or Normal?
- From: John Delacour <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 00:43:29 +0100
- Mac-eudora-version: 6.0a23
At 2:03 pm -0400 20/6/03, Gary Lists wrote:
It came to my attention that when I would run either of the scripts, for
every code processed for which there was _not_ a pre-existing folder, the
simple execution of the 'path to' command created one.
I was a bit shocked that I hadn't noticed this before
This is deliberate. It has always been so.
Try path to plugins and you'll be even more shocked.
....There is a difference, however. OHM, if he moves one of the undesirably
created folders to the trash, then runs the script again, the result is an
alias which points to the item in the trash (with no additional creation.)
OMM, OS9.1, moving the item to the trash and running the script creates
another new item, disregarding the one in the trash.
I think this is a bug in the OS X Finder. It has problems with the
cache, in other instances too. I don't know how to formulate a
report for the bug or I would do so. If you log out and come back
the behaviour will change.
If you have any comments about the broader context of the 'path to' command
for "blessed" items (with 4-char codes) or about how we might best handle
the problem of unintentionally creating directories which the user has
obviously deleted.
What's the problem? You've seen what happens and you know how to
avoid it. Just don't unintentionally do it.
JD
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