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Re: A quick question about moving files
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Re: A quick question about moving files


  • Subject: Re: A quick question about moving files
  • From: Sander Tekelenburg <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 19:06:21 +0200

At 13:51 +0200 UTC, on 2005/09/09, patrick machielse wrote:

> I'm trying to move the contents of folder 'A' to folder 'B'.

[...]

> tell application "System Events"
>      set t1 to folder "test1" of desktop folder
>      set t2 to folder "test2" of desktop folder
>
>      move disk items of t1 to (path of t2)
> end tell
>
> The result value here is: {missing value, missing value, missing value}

Follow the advice you were given: use "path to" whenever you can. (Which
really boils down to the more general advice of only targeting an app when
you need to.)

So:

set f1 to (((path to desktop) as string) & "foldername:") as alias --[*]
set f2 to (((path to desktop) as string) & "foldername:") as alias
tell application "System Events"
	move every file of f1 to f2
end tell


[*] Asks for path to desktop, coerces that to string in order to allow
concatenation, than coerce to alias. Note that the construction "alias
<string>" requires the alias to exist when you compile. "<string> as alias"
does not.

> I need
> to move all files, including invisibles, so I need to use "System
> Events", not "Finder" (correct me if I'm wrong).

I wasn't aware Finder.app ignores invisible files. (I guess I don't script
Finder often.) If this is a problem, it might also matter how the file was
made invisible. Mac OS X offers 2 or 3 different schemes for that.


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Sander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/>
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