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Re: Simply deleting a fil
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Re: Simply deleting a fil


  • Subject: Re: Simply deleting a fil
  • From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:50:13 -0500

On Apr 17, 2009, at 8:53 AM, Michelle Steiner wrote:

On Apr 17, 2009, at 2:04 AM, Tim Mansour wrote:

Why bother with POSIX paths? Why not just:

tell application "Finder" to delete alias ((path to documents folder
as text) & "__MACOSX")

That's what I was thinking. Or use System Events instead of Finder. Using Finder puts the file into the trash; using System Events deletes the file completely.

Interesting ... so I tried it. But, I found that System Events works just like Finder.
The following script ...


	path to desktop
	tell application "Finder"
		set folderAlias to (make new folder at the result)
	end tell
	delay 1
	tell application "System Events"
		delete folderAlias
	end tell

simply puts the folder "untitled folder" into the trash.
Also, you may wonder why I told Finder to 'make new folder ...' instead of System Events.
The 'make new ...' command in System Events seems to be broken.


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 >Re: Simply deleting a fil (From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>)

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