Re: Folder Action for changing privileges
Re: Folder Action for changing privileges
- Subject: Re: Folder Action for changing privileges
- From: Brett Conlon <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 12:32:18 +1100
Many thanks for responding, J.
Unfortunately it didn't fix my issue.
In fact I have done further testing
and the script below fails on my computer (10.4.9) and 2 other 10.4 systems
in the studio (10.4.7 & 10.4.8) but using the same script on the three
10.3.9 users I tried, it works fine! So it appears to be a 10.4.x issue
- tighter restrictions on setting privileges or just a bug???
To see if it was processing all of the
repeat I added the beep after the shell script and I get no beep on the
10.4 Macs but the success dialog shows... weird! On the 10.3 Macs the beep
happens, the success dialog appears and the permissions are changed correctly.
on
adding folder items to
theFolder
after receiving
theAddedItems
try
repeat
with
ThisItem
in
theAddedItems
log
ThisItem
set
FilePath
to
quoted form
of
POSIX path
of
(contents
of
ThisItem)
beep
do
shell script "chmod -R 777 "
& FilePath
end
repeat
display
dialog "Permissions changed successfully."
buttons
{"Thanks!"} default
button 1
on
error
display
dialog "Changing permissions failed.
Please try it manually" buttons
{"OK"} default
button 1
end
try
end
adding folder items to
Could someone on a 10.4 setup please
try this so I know if it is something specific to our setups?
Ta muchly,
Brett
"J. Stewart"
<email@hidden>
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29/06/07 06:53 PM
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On 6/29/07 at 2:45 AM, Brett Conlon <email@hidden>
spake thusly:
>repeat with thisItem in theAddedItems set FilePath to quoted
>form of POSIX path of thisItem do shell script "chmod -R 777 "
>& FilePath end repeat
You may be getting bitten by a long standing gotcha of repeating
by reference. Try this instead (I didn't test).
repeat with thisItem in theAddedItems
set FilePath to quoted form of POSIX path of (contents of
thisItem)
do shell script "chmod -R 777 " & FilePath
end repeat
When you loop using the above form what you are really getting
when you refer to "thisItem' is "item x of theAddedItems"
and
not a file path. The addition of "contents of" to the script
forces it to resolve the reference into the actual file path it contains.
JBS
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