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Writing multiple files to clipboard


  • Subject: Writing multiple files to clipboard
  • From: Robert Krüger <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 21:53:40 +0100

Hi,

I'm failing to achieve a seemingly simple thing. I want to write files into the clipboard so they can be pasted into Finder.

This works well for a single file, using this code:

set theFile to POSIX file "/users/krueger/tmp/file1.dat"
set the clipboard to theFile

However, when I try to put multiple files into the clipboard by the naive approach,

set theFile1 to POSIX file "/users/krueger/tmp/file1.dat"
set theFile2 to POSIX file "/users/krueger/tmp/file2.dat"
set fileList to {theFile1, theFile2}
set the clipboard to fileList

I don't get a "Paste Items" menu entry in Finder.

When I compare clipboard info to when I actually select those files in Finder, there is a difference. With my code the clipboard data is listed a "list" while for the data put into the clipboard by Finder it is "class furl".

Any hints appreciated.

Cheers,

Robert

P.S.: Is it normal that the list archive search doesn't work? I've been trying for the past two days. Browsing through the archive month by month is not really an option. Is there a non-apple searchable archive that anyone can recommend?

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