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: Jon Pugh <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 21:37:49 -0800
At 10:25 PM -0700 12/6/07, Michelle Steiner wrote:
>On Dec 6, 2007, at 10:13 PM, Skeeve wrote:
>
>>>>>work around, that I haven't tried, would be to: 'duplicate' to the "TemporaryItems" folder;
>>>>Which requires that there isn't already a file by that name!
>>>
>>>Just add "with replacing" to the "duplicate" command
>>>
>>So you will replace a file that was placed there by another application?
>>Bad idea! Very Bad!
>
>The odds that another application placed a file with the same file name in the temporary files folder is so small that the risk is negligible.
And it's easy enough to check first so that you can be sure it's not there.
Jon
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