Re: Setting File & Creator Type access error
Re: Setting File & Creator Type access error
- Subject: Re: Setting File & Creator Type access error
- From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 01:15:15 -0700
On 2009-06-30, at 23:21:49, Johnny AppleScript wrote: -- Why does this work:
tell application "Finder"
set my_file to choose file
set {f, c} to {file type, creator type} of my_file
end tell
-- > {“THIS”, “that”}
-- And this does not:
set my_file to choose file
tell application "Finder" to set {file type, creator type} of my_file to
{"THIS ", "that"}
-- > Can’t set {file type of alias \"[filepath]", «class fcrt» of alias
\"[filepath]\"} to {\"THIS\", \"that\"}. Access not allowed.
I don't know but:
tell application "System Events" set {creator type of my_file, file type of my_file} to {"THAT", "THIS"} end tell
runs without reporting an error on my 10.5.7/Intel setup.
Philip Aker echo email@hidden@nl | tr a-z@. p-za-o.@ Democracy: Two wolves and a sheep voting on lunch.
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