Re: Changing the name of a file in the temporary items folder
Re: Changing the name of a file in the temporary items folder
- Subject: Re: Changing the name of a file in the temporary items folder
- From: "J. Stewart" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 12:52:53 -0500
On 12/8/07 at 10:53 AM, Skeeve <email@hidden> spake thusly:
But, as I already wrote earlier, Jon's workaround is no
solution as it is impossible, using just AppleScript, to delete
the temporary stuff created in a clean way.
It isn't? I find this hard to believe since I (and others) have
been using Applescript to delete files/Folders for years and
it's always seemed pretty clean to me. Just what is the problem
you're having with the Finder's commands or the unix "rm" command?
Assuming there is a folder in the Temporary Items folder named
"myotherTmpFldr" then
this gets rid of it and it's contents -
set itm2Trash to alias ((path to "temp" as Unicode text) & "myotherTmpFldr:")
tell application "Finder"
delete itm2Trash
empty trash
end tell
If you are getting that annoying dialog telling you that you are
about to empty the trash popping up, either turn it off in the
Finder's preferences or run this -
do shell script "defaults write com.apple.finder
WarnOnEmptyTrash 0"
then restart the Finder to get rid of it. If you can't do that
cause it's meant for another's machine? Again assuming a folder
in the Temporary Items folder named "myotherTmpFldr", here's the
solution for that -
set tempItemsF to quoted form of POSIX path of alias ((path to
"temp" as Unicode text) & "myotherTmpFldr:")
do shell script "rm -R " & tempItemsF
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