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Re: Accessing network folders in AppleScript
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Re: Accessing network folders in AppleScript


  • Subject: Re: Accessing network folders in AppleScript
  • From: Wayne Melrose <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 06:38:37 +0200

someone might have a specific answer for you, but i had a similar problem with getting the size of the folder, on panther, when you asked for the size of (get info) of a folder, it would not return the result the first time, the fix i came up with was putting the same line of code twice in my script ( i can see people wincing now) but it solved the problem.

try that?


set theFolderPath to "xshare$:xxxxxxx:xxxxxxx:"
tell application "Finder"
set theFolder to folder theFolderPath
set folderDate to modification date of theFolder
set folderDate to modification date of theFolder --- duplicate this line


end tell


The script is then supposed to give the user a dialog box with the modification date. When I try running this script on a new machine (putting an alias to the folder containing the script on that machine's script menu), the script fails to run the first time (i.e., nothing happens). *However*, the second time, and all subsequent times, the script runs successfully. This pattern will repeat if I restart the computer.

Does anyone have any ideas why this script wouldn't run the first time?

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