Re: How far back?
Re: How far back?
- Subject: Re: How far back?
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:29:17 -0800
- Thread-topic: How far back?
On 3/14/06 2:21 PM, "Bill Cheeseman" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> The "AppleScript" chapter on my AppleScript Sourcebook site (URL below)
> tracked changes in the Finder dictionary, as well as Apple's scripting
> additions and AppleScript itself, over a long period of time. You might find
> what you're looking for there.
Thanks, Bill. No, you had stopped by that point. The AppleScript team now
put out really excellent and thorough Release Notes with each new release,
although it's almost impossible to find them unless you get a link and
bookmark it. There's only one very roundabout way to the full list of
Release Notes.
However, the Finder team does not seem to release any AppleScript Release
Notes that I can find. (Anyone?) So when you stopped, that was it. I think
permissions and owner settings have been in the dictionary for a while, but
I'm not sure that they're as configurable as via a shell script, and I'll
check in Jaguar once I've installed it again.
If anyone is keeping track of such things, I've just discovered a fixed bug
in Tiger. (Or rather, when I tried running the script in Panther, I hit a
bug which I had to track down there.)
The command
duplicate every item of someFolder to anotherFolder with replacing
hits an error in OS 10.3.9 (and earlier, I'm sure) if any of its items is
itself a (sub)folder. You get a "Finder got an error: the command could not
be completed because another item of the same name is in that location",
just as if you had never included 'with replacing'. It's OK for all files,
but not for subfolders. But if you do a repeat loop and duplicate each item
separately it works OK - you do not have to delve into the subfolders
either.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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