Re: Setting file comments (Finder info comments) in OS X
Re: Setting file comments (Finder info comments) in OS X
- Subject: Re: Setting file comments (Finder info comments) in OS X
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 18:37:18 -0700
On May 20, 2004, at 6:23 AM, Graff wrote:
You can lock the file or change the write permissions on the file. If
the file is locked and/or not writable to a user then the comments
can't be changed.
You would lock the file by doing:
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tell application "Finder"
set theComment to "here's a comment"
set comment of file "Users:usr1:Desktop:test.sh" to theComment
set locked of file "Users:usr1:Desktop:test.sh" to true
end tell
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You can change the file to read-only permissions with:
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tell application "Finder"
set theComment to "here's a comment"
set comment of file "Users:usr1:Desktop:test.sh" to theComment
set owner privileges of file "Users:usr1:Desktop:test.sh" to read only
set group privileges of file "Users:usr1:Desktop:test.sh" to read only
set everyones privileges of file "Users:usr1:Desktop:test.sh" to read
only
end tell
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Since they're already using Cocoa, chmod(2) and chflags(2) would
probably be more appropriate. Faster, certainly. (Use the uchg flag
for locking the file.)
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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