[OFF (quite)]: Invisibles
[OFF (quite)]: Invisibles
- Subject: [OFF (quite)]: Invisibles
- From: Emmanuel LEVY <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:38:06 +0200
Not much to see with AppleScript, but I've experienced much trouble
zipping folders with invisible files. Mine were the ._filename files
that sometimes stand for the resource fork on non-Mac systems. Zipping
never ends, the progress bar stops before the end, you have to click
"stop". If you are lucky this lets a perfectly valid zip file - valid
except that it did not retain the invisible files. If you're less
lucky clicking stop leaves nothing, you have to split the folder into
pieces until you identify the culprit(s). That said, if you're really
lucky, you don't need zipping whatever, you don't have to work at all,
you're chilling on your yacht, listening to good music, discussing
with friends and/or drinking sodas, and hopefully you don't read this.
Emmanuel
On Oct 14, 2009, at 1:08 AM, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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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