Re: Make Finder files invisible
Re: Make Finder files invisible
- Subject: Re: Make Finder files invisible
- From: Nathan Day <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:57:48 +1000
If you have the devel tools installed then you can set the invisible flag, with the command line app SetFile, also I think you can also in unix set files invisible by adding them to some file called something like .invisible
On Monday, June 21, 2004, at 06:48PM, Martin Orpen <email@hidden> wrote:
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on 21/6/04 8:18 am, Ronald Hofmann at email@hidden wrote:
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> Good morning.
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> I'm trying to make a file invisible by this:
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> tell application "Finder"
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> set theItem to choose file
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> set the visible of theItem to false
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> end tell
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> After execution I get an error: Finder has got an error: visible of
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> alias \"MacOSX:Users:ronny:Desktop: Read Me\" cannot be set to
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> false"
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> What am I doing wron?
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Don't think you can set the "visible" of a file.
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This is a an *alternative* to make them invisible/visible (for OS X):
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tell application "Finder"
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set x to choose file with prompt "choose a file"
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set y to name of x
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if item 1 of y is not "." then
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set name of x to "." & y
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else
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set y to items 2 thru (count of items in y) of y as text
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set name of x to y
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end if
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end tell
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Regards
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--
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Martin Orpen
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Idea Digital Imaging Ltd -- The Image Specialists
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http://www.idea-digital.com
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