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Re: Setting Finder window background picture
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Re: Setting Finder window background picture


  • Subject: Re: Setting Finder window background picture
  • From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 15:30:57 -0800

At 11:34a -0800 02/20/2004, Mark Alldritt didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus:

>Has anyone figured out how to set the background picture for a
>volume/folder? AppleScript would be best, but if there's some shell command
>that does this trick, that's fine also.

Isn't it just a matter of placing the right filename?
Let's see... I know OmniWeb uses a bkgd pic...

/volumeOrFolder/.background/background

So that's an image file named "background" in a folder named ".background".

Let's see how Watson does it...

/Watson 1.7.5/.background/backdrop.jpg

So I guess the name of the file doesn't matter, as long as it's in a hidden folder named ".background". Therefore you could do something like this:

do shell script "mkdir " & posixPathToVolumeOrFolder & "/.background ; cp -p " & posixPathToOriginalImage & " " & posixPathToNewDotBackgroundFolder


cheers,
-boo
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