Re: AppleScript Studio & File Paths
Re: AppleScript Studio & File Paths
- Subject: Re: AppleScript Studio & File Paths
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 15:57:36 -0400
Or that. I wasn't clear on what exactly the files were being hidden
from, so I took the requirement at face value....
On 5/14/08, Christopher Nebel <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> 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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