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RE: Setting file comments (Finder info comments) in OS X
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RE: Setting file comments (Finder info comments) in OS X


  • Subject: RE: Setting file comments (Finder info comments) in OS X
  • From: "Ramakrishna Kondapalli" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 17:45:47 +0530
  • Thread-topic: Setting file comments (Finder info comments) in OS X

Hi,
Is there any way by which i can make the finder's comment text as non
editable but file should be editable to the user? Because when i locked
the file ( chflags uchg <file Name>) , it is not allowing the user to
edit also.

Thanks & Regards,
Ramakrishna

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From: Graff
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 8:14 AM
To: AppleScript Users
Subject: Re: Setting file comments (Finder info comments) in OS
X

On May 20, 2004, at 9:37 PM, Christopher Nebel wrote:

> 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:
>> ----
>> 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
>> ----
>>
>> You can change the file to read-only permissions with:
>> ----
>> 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
>> ----
>
> 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.)

True, I was just relaying the AppleScript way since it was posted to an
AppleScript list.

- Ken
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