Re: Delete an Invisible File
Re: Delete an Invisible File
- Subject: Re: Delete an Invisible File
- From: Brian Christmas <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:23:15 +1100
On 19/02/2010, at 8:59 AM, Steve Valenti wrote: I need to create a script to delete an invisible file in a folder. The folder will be on a mounted SMB drive file server. I’m not seeing how I can reference the invisible file since this bit won’t work. tell application "Finder" delete (every file of folder "PathToFolder" whose name is ".DS_Store") end tell I’m guessing this might be a job for a shell script but I don’t know any shell scripting to use the “do shell” command in AppleScript. Can anyone give me a hand? The reason I need to delete this file is because when I try to copy a folder that contains this file to a Microsoft SharePoint server, it errors.
G'day Steve
The following script will remove the .DS_Store, but be warned, once theDS_Store has been created in the folder, and addressing or opening of the folder will re-create the DS_Store file. So running the script once will remove the file, running it a second time gives an error that the DS_Store can't be found, but running it a third time will trash the DS_Store again.
I think if you warp the trash line in a try statement, followed by your move to server code, you should be ok.
Regards
Santa
set ptd to path to desktop set ptf to ptd & "untitled folder:.DS_Store" as text tell application "Finder" move ptf to trash end tell
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