Re: Odd Finder Behavior
Re: Odd Finder Behavior
- Subject: Re: Odd Finder Behavior
- From: Peter Waibel <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 19:30:32 +0100
Once the script runs and finds files, downloads and deletes them,
it no longer sees new files dropped into the directory. If a user
opens the directory's window on the mac running the script, the
user cannot see the new files. If a user opens the same directory's
window on another mac that has the volume mounted, the files are
visible on the other mac, but still not visible on the mac running
the script.
On the mac where the script is running, if the user creates a new
folder inside the directory, all the files become visible to the
user and the script. (In fact, the work around in the script is to
tell the finder to make a new folder and then delete it.)
This only occurs via AppleScript. If the files are copied and moved
to the trash by a user, there is no problem.
Telling the finder to activate doesn't help; opening and/or closing
the window doesn't help; using finder's "Udate" command has no
effect; switching from Jon's commands to the finder for downloading
and deleting the files seems to delay the behavior, but that may
simply be that Jons commands is so much faster it's more likely to
finish before new files appear.
I had similar problems on AFP mounts (SUN server with Helios AFP).
In most cases this was a problem at the server.
A corrupt desktop file or orhan resource forks.
But there are still some remaining problems with unvisible files.
I'm wondering whether finder's update has any effect on a mounted
volume.
Meanwhile I try to avoid finder scripting when moving or copying files
and use the command line tool ditto instead.
Has anyone suggestion how to savely delete files (data and resource
fork) on a mounted volume
without using finder scripting?
Peter
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