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Re: Path To blessed items (OSX and OS9): Odd or Normal?
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Re: Path To blessed items (OSX and OS9): Odd or Normal?


  • Subject: Re: Path To blessed items (OSX and OS9): Odd or Normal?
  • From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 19:57:53 -0700

On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 4:43 PM, John Delacour wrote:

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.

This is deliberate. It has always been so.

Yep. Go ahead and file a bug asking for a "don't create" parameter of some sort, if you like.

....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.

The Finder has its problems, but this isn't one of them -- the culprit here is FindFolder itself. Essentially, once you ask FindFolder where something is, it will remember *that specific folder* until you log out, even if you move or rename it. File a bug -- be sure to mention that Mac OS 9 didn't do that, since that helps your case.


--Chris Nebel
Apple Development Tools
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