Re: Creating an alias with a folder action script.
Re: Creating an alias with a folder action script.
- Subject: Re: Creating an alias with a folder action script.
- From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 13:12:15 -0700
On Oct 1, 2005, at 12:42 PM, Jay Louvion wrote: Is it possible to use folder action scripts to retrieve info from a the source of a copied file ? Meaning I copy a file from A to folder B (holding a folder action script) and would like to display a dialog with the path of the file’s A location. Impossible, right ?
So far as I can tell; it is not possible. By the time the folder action runs, the file is in the new folder, and the information about where it came from is gone.
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