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Re: Script to remove creator code
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Re: Script to remove creator code


  • Subject: Re: Script to remove creator code
  • From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 10:32:24 -0700

On Jun 22, 2004, at 6:10 AM, Robert Nordvik wrote:

> Upon running, I get the following message: "Finder got an error: Can't
> make some data into the expected type."
>
> Can someone help me make a working script to remove the creator code?
> Then, hopefully I will be able to apply it is a folder action.

The problem is that the class of the creator type is not text; it is
OStype, which is defined as four characters.

So you can set it to " " (four spaces) or to null or to missing
value, but you can't set it to anything between quotes that contain
other than four characters.

--
"The past is like a foreign country. They do things differently
there." --Leslie Poles Hartley

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