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Re: Can't consistently make alias folder
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Re: Can't consistently make alias folder


  • Subject: Re: Can't consistently make alias folder
  • From: "Gary (Lists)" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:18:38 -0500
  • Thread-topic: Can't consistently make alias folder

"Jim Skibbie" wrote:

> The actual script code is:
>
>    make new alias file at folder appFolder to AIfold with properties
> {name:AI_ASName}
>
> where the variables above are strings that are the paths to the two places and
> the last one is the name of the new alias folder.
>
> If I make the string variables into aliases then that will work consistently?

That's not what he said.  He said the 'to' parameter shouldn't be a string.

So, when you say:

... to "some:place:" with properties...

You should try saying:

... to alias "some:place:" with properties...

That use of the word 'alias' is not the same as your use in trying make a
'file alias' (like a desktop "shortcut" alias).

Has wrote:

> Not that you should really be dumping scripts
> at / anyway; use ~/Library/Scripts for per-user scripts and /Library/
> Scripts for system-wide ones with permissions set appropriately, and
> they should all show up in the Script menu automatically.

There is nothing at all wrong with the user's placing scripts in that
location.  That's where they are supposed to go.

Your note suggests the same place that the user is already using, so I don't
get it.

(Or you think that all scripts should be placed at the first level of
~/Library/Scripts and leave it at that?  Blech.  No good.)

Scripts inside the 'Scripts' folder (either one of them) can be placed
inside named folders, per application or other criteria that the user
decides (by application is most logical).  This is how I do it, and how I
think most folks do it.


 --
Gary


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