Re: Invisibles
Re: Invisibles
- Subject: Re: Invisibles
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:08:23 -0700
- Thread-topic: Invisibles
Title: Re: Invisibles
Looks like a good workaround.
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Paul Berkowitz
From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:58:23 -0500
To: AppleScript-Users <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Invisibles
This, apparently, is the work-around I have to use. It seems that while the Finder errors on paths ending with an invisible item, it isn't bothered by paths containing an invisible folder as long as it's not the last item. This is what I tried with success ...
set selfRef to (path to me)
tell application "Finder"
set locContainer to (container of selfRef) as alias
set invisPath to (locContainer as text) & ".invisibleFolder:Untitled.rtf"
end tell
try
tell application "Finder"
set aliasFileAlias to invisPath as alias
(original item of aliasFileAlias) as alias -- THIS WORKS
end tell
on error
display dialog "Error"
end try
On Oct 13, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Luther Fuller wrote:
The Finder cannot do this ...
set orgItem to (original item of aliasFileAlias) -- ERRORS HERE
and System Events doesn't know about 'alias file' or 'original item', so is no help.
I looked at the 'GetFileInfo' man page, but that's no help either.
Anyone know how to get the original item of an invisible alias file?
Without making it visible! Which, I suppose, will be the work-around.
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