Folder actions and Illustrator files
Folder actions and Illustrator files
- Subject: Folder actions and Illustrator files
- From: Richard Allaway <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:15:37 -0800
Hello -
I'm having some trouble with folder actions and Illustrator CS. When I save a file from Illustrator to a folder on the network my folder action is activating before the save in complete - often it's AITempFile (or some similar name) that gets processed. In fact this happens when saving pdfs from Acrobat too. Here's an on-adding-folder-items-to that I wrote to try to fix the problem:
on adding folder items to theFolder after receiving theAddedItems
local _ready
set _ready to false
repeat with theFile in every item of theAddedItems
repeat while not _ready
try
get busy status of (get info for theFile)
set _ready to true
on error
set _ready to false
end try
end repeat
repurpose thru theFile -- this is the business end handler call.
end repeat
end adding folder items to
And sure enough it doesn't work - the loop either loops forever (or until I get cross and stop it) or I get an 'Unknown Scripting Error'
Anyway, surely 'get busy status' shouldn't really either throw an error or 'false' - or does that make sense to people that understand these sorts of things better than I?
Sorry if this has been covered before, and for not trying harder to fix it myself, only my brain is starting to hurt
Thankyou
Richard
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