Re: Deleting Files With System Events
Re: Deleting Files With System Events
- Subject: Re: Deleting Files With System Events
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 20:59:16 -0800
It doesn't work using 'alias', Chris.
You have to use 'file' or 'item' in a System Events block.
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Paul Berkowitz
> From: Christopher Stone <email@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 22:32:32 -0600
> To: <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Deleting Files With System Events
>
> Interestingly I seem unable to delete explicitly referenced items:
>
> This fails:
>
> tell application "Finder"
> -- a single file
> set f to selection as alias
> end tell
>
> tell application "System Events"
> delete f
> end tell
>
> and this:
>
> set f to alias "Lao-Tzu:Users:chris:Desktop:test:KateBosworth.jpg"
>
> tell application "System Events"
> delete f
> end tell
>
>
> On the other hand this works:
>
> set fl to "Lao-Tzu:Users:chris:Desktop:test:"
> set fn to "KateBosworth.jpg"
>
> tell application "System Events"
> delete file fn of folder fl
> end tell
>
>
> I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that there are two
> 'delete' commands in System Events - one in the Standard Suite and one in
> the Disk-Folder-File Suite.
>
>
> Chris
>
>
>
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