Re: folder of alias "anything" = /Applications
Re: folder of alias "anything" = /Applications
- Subject: Re: folder of alias "anything" = /Applications
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 12:40:06 -0700
On 7/30/04 12:00 PM, "Sander Tekelenburg" <email@hidden> wrote:
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At 23:35 -0700 UTC, on 2004/07/29, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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> Since the folder is undefined due to the faulty coercion, it must just go to
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> the first folder on your startup disk. That's usually /Applications.
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FWIW, I created a folder /AA and AS still went to /Applications.
It's probably "first created" rather than "first alphabetically".
/Applications probably has the earliest ID of any visible folder on your
disk.
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> Personally, I've never liked how the Finder, and now evidently System
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> Events, "helps out" poor scripting by coercions like this. It's very sloppy,
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> and half the time gets something you don't want rather than what you do
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> want, silently. I, like you, would much prefer that it errored.
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Right.
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I submitted a bug report. Bug ID# 3746534.
Good. I'll join in.
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Paul Berkowitz
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