Re: Finder inconsistency (Was: What makes AppleScript difficult)
Re: Finder inconsistency (Was: What makes AppleScript difficult)
- Subject: Re: Finder inconsistency (Was: What makes AppleScript difficult)
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 13:48:40 -0500
You could replace the second duplicate + removal with a move, yes?
On 12/6/07, Luther Fuller <email@hidden> wrote:
> I've run into this too. Adding "with properties" to "duplicate" is a
> necessity.
>
> A work around, that I haven't tried, would be to: 'duplicate' to the
> "TemporaryItems" folder; change the name or other properties of this
> temporary item; 'duplicate' this temporary item to the final
> destination; then remove the temporary item.
>
> On Dec 6, 2007, at 10:14 AM, Skeeve wrote:
>
> > One more thing that I rememberd when this thread popped up:
> >
> > The Standard form for "duplicate" allowas a "with properties".
> > Finder doesn't.
> >
> > Finder allows ist for "make".
> >
> > This is a big hinderance.
> >
> > In one of my projects I needed to copy a file under a different
> > name to harddisk. But it may not appear under the original name in
> > the target directory and it may not appear under the target name in
> > the original directory. So renaming before or after copying is not
> > an option. It has to be copied and renamed in one step:
> >
> > duplicate original to targetdir replacing yes with properties
> > { name : "targetName" }
> >
> > would be a proper command, but it doesn't work.
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