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Re: scripting secure empty trash (was: no subject)
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Re: scripting secure empty trash (was: no subject)


  • Subject: Re: scripting secure empty trash (was: no subject)
  • From: David Marshall <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 11:49:12 -0400

On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, kai wrote:

(was: no subject)

Only two things I miss from my Outlook Express days (now using Mail): the Next and Previous buttons in individual message windows, and the warning issued when clicking "Send" on messages with empty subject fields! 8-0


If the keystroke
follows straight on from the menu click, the target button may not be
quite ready to register it (causing the warning dialog to stay put).

My script, originally written in OS X 10.3.8 on an iMac G3/400, included a 2-second delay (which probably meant that 1 second didn't seem to be enough; my fine-tuning efforts didn't include intra- integer interpolations); when I dusted it off in response to this thread, the delay wasn't needed in OS X 10.4.7 on a mini G4/1.25.


tell application "System Events"
	set w to value of property list file ((path to preferences as
Unicode text) & ¬
		"com.apple.finder.plist")'s property list item "WarnOnEmptyTrash"
	tell application process "Finder"
		click menu item 7 of menu "Finder" of menu bar item "Finder" of
menu bar 1
		if w then

Thanks for the (elegant, as usual) solution to the Finder warning issue. Wonder if any linguists have ever done analyses of AS's unusual macroization of parts of speech? The possessive noun


((path to preferences as Unicode text) & "com.apple.finder.plist")'s

is a beauty; I appreciate my (original script supplemented with your property list item value test)'s improved functionality. ;-)


- - - - -

Dave



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