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Re: making the Documents folder visible
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Re: making the Documents folder visible


  • Subject: Re: making the Documents folder visible
  • From: Laine Lee <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 19:47:41 -0600
  • Thread-topic: making the Documents folder visible

On 12/15/07 4:01 PM, "John Mitchell" <email@hidden> wrote:

> I have somehow lost the visibility of my Documents folder in my Users folder.
> (I think due to some applecscripting of a FileMaker file Documents .fp7)
>
> I can see it using Invisibility Toggler , can make an item in the Finder panel
> but of course disappears when I reset visibility back to normal
>
> As I presume it has special privileges (Script Debugger's Explorer view shows
> it not editable), I have had not success scripting the change:
>
> tell application "Finder"
>        set fContainer to choose folder "Check folder properties"
>        set thisItemsInfo to info for fContainer
>        open fContainer
>  tell fContainer to set visible to true
> end tell
>
> I cannot work out a method of changing the setting from false to true
>
> any ideas?
>


Install developer tools (available from Apple), paste the following command
line into a Terminal window and press return or enter.

SetFile  -a v -P ~/Documents

--
Laine Lee


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