Re: subtle gotcha in 10.3.3 Finder copying on networked disk
Re: subtle gotcha in 10.3.3 Finder copying on networked disk
- Subject: Re: subtle gotcha in 10.3.3 Finder copying on networked disk
- From: Mark Douma <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 10:15:16 -0500
On Mar 21, 2004, at 6:20 AM, Charles Arthur wrote:
Hi..
For a long time I've had a script, bound to a key combo, to copy
stories
I've written from one (Appletalk) networked drive to another location
on
the same drive.
Up till 10.3.3, it had to be this:
snip
So I'd select the file in the Finder, then do the key combo, and it
would
get copied, and coloured in my original networked drive. The huge long
path
turned out to be necessary in 10.3, or possibly earlier.
But with the update to 10.3.3 (client), I started getting this message:
"Can't make folder "EdHns" of folder "Desks".... [etc] of item
"private"
into a selection."
I thought: I'm not asking you to do that. I'm just asking you to copy
the
damn file.
I wondered which of the changes introduced by 10.3.3 could be
responsible.
Turned out to be staring me in the face: networked volumes now appear
in
the Finder sidebar.
The mount point that appears in the sidebar is "Daily News". And
lo, it turned out that when I commented out everything after that in
the
previous script, it ran perfectly.
Definitely one to watch out for if you're using that sort of script and
crossing from 10.3.2 to 10.3.3.
Thankfully this issue has finally been addressed. Kind of a bummer that
the "solution" to the problematic Network browser architecture was to
basically remove it entirely.
The 10.3.0-10.3.2 setup caused all sorts of problems with some of my
scripts that worked normally in Jaguar and prior, when trying to deal
with files that were on a networked volume that you connected to
through the network browser method, and also with files inside your
home folder if you had FileVault enabled. I'm surprised yours even
worked.
http://homepage.mac.com/mdouma46/panther/bugs.html
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Mark Douma
Grand Rapids, MI, USA
email@hidden
http://homepage.mac.com/mdouma46/
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