Re: Accessing network folders in AppleScript
Re: Accessing network folders in AppleScript
- Subject: Re: Accessing network folders in AppleScript
- From: Charles Wesley <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:00:33 -0700
Wayne,
That seems to fix the problem! Thanks.
I wonder why this would happen...was your problem in getting the size
of a folder also on a network share, or was it on a local drive?
charles
On 9/29/05, Wayne Melrose <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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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