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: Jon Pugh <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 21:40:40 -0700
At 2:03 PM -0400 6/20/03, Gary Lists wrote:
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The scripts basically loop through a list of 4-char codes, return the 'path
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to' information as a string, and then present a list to the user showing the
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code and the path...a choose from list.
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It came to my attention that when I would run either of the scripts, for
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every code processed for which there was _not_ a pre-existing folder, the
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simple execution of the 'path to' command created one.
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I was a bit shocked that I hadn't noticed this before, and so I contacted
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Rob to see how his newer (and much more organized) version was handling the
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similar case in OSX. He did some testing and...
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Astonishingly (to us), the same thing happens.
The FindFolder call has a "createFolder" parameter to control whether or not this happens. Most people call it with true, but if Apple exposed it via a "creating" parameter you could say:
path to porn folder without creating
So it's normal and just a touch lame since there's no parameter or folder like that. ;)
Jon
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