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Re: AppleScript Studio & File Paths
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Re: AppleScript Studio & File Paths


  • Subject: Re: AppleScript Studio & File Paths
  • From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 12:31:36 -0700


On May 12, 2008, at 7:58 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote:

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 10:55 PM, Mark J. Reed <email@hidden> wrote:
set myFile to choose file
set newName to "." & name of (get info for myFile)
tell application "System Events" to set name of myFile to newName

Or just do it all with System Events, no need for get info:

set myFile to choose file
tell application "System Events" to set name of myFile to "." & name of myFile

Or, since the point was to hide the file, use the file meta-data that's designed to do that:


	set myFile to choose file
	tell application "System Events" to set visible of myFile to false

POSIX tools like ls(1) don't respect the "visible" bit, but file browsers do.


--Chris Nebel AppleScript Engineering

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