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Re: Creating a script that can set its own modification date
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Re: Creating a script that can set its own modification date


  • Subject: Re: Creating a script that can set its own modification date
  • From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:14:56 -0700

On Nov 29, 2007, at 6:57 AM, Mark J. Reed wrote:

tell application "System Events"
set the modification date of (path to me) to ((current date) + 10 * days)
end tell

That still has the same problem as David's original shell solution - when run as a compiled script, the auto-save at the end undoes the work. Every time you run a compiled script its mtime gets reset to now.

It stays the time set by the script on my system, and does not revert to the present.


I'm running Leopard 10.5.1

-- Michelle

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