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Strange Finder error


  • Subject: Strange Finder error
  • From: "Stockly, Ed" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:21:33 -0700
  • Thread-topic: Strange Finder error

This is very strange.  I'm on Tiger (I know!)

I have a script that I've been using for over a year on a daily basis.

It collects a number of files and folders from various sources (FTP sites,
network volumes) places them in a folder on the desktop.

This week it started crashing with an odd error message:

Finder got an error: The operation could not be completed because there is
already an item with that name. -48

This is the line that tripped the error (from inside a finder tell):

duplicate folder dailyDocsFolder to localDesktop with replacing

Here's where it gets weird.

-- The error message appears after the entire folder has finished copying.
-- There are no folders on the disk with the same name (I did a spotlight
and trashed all folders with that name anywhere on the mac, emptied the
trash and the problem persists)
-- Even if there were a folder on the disc with that name, the "with
replacing" should handle it
-- And here's the work around


tell application "Finder"
    set folderName to name of alias dailyDocsFolder
    if exists item folderName of localDesktop then
        delete item folderName of localDesktop -- this line never executes
    end if
        try
        duplicate folder dailyDocsFolder to localDesktop with replacing --
this line errors
        set workingDailyFolder to the result as alias
    on error ErrText number errNum
        display dialog ErrText & return & errNum
        if exists item folderName of localDesktop then
            set workingDailyFolder to the item folderName of localDesktop as
alias
        end if
    end try
end tell

Any ideas?

ES

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