Re: Simply deleting a fil
Re: Simply deleting a fil
- Subject: Re: Simply deleting a fil
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:02:23 -0700
On Apr 17, 2009, at 11:00 AM, Luther Fuller wrote:
It's because you are not working with the correct syntax and
correct items.
So I experimented more. It seems that the correct syntax is ...
tell application "System Events" to delete disk item (itemAlias
as text)
In other words, 'disk item' needs to be specified as a text path.
But when I looked at the System Events dictionary, it's not clear
that this is required.
When I read:
disk item n [inh. item] : An item stored in the file system
I understand that 'n' means name and I never thought that a name
may be other thing than a string.
Probably because I'm a mathematician, but I would have thought that
'n' means "number" or "nothing" (or "nonsense"). It would be clearer
if the dictionary said something like ...
disk item [text], path to disk item
Wouldn't it?
It's a dictionary -- the "n" is for "noun".
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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