Re: Say "What?"
Re: Say "What?"
- Subject: Re: Say "What?"
- From: Paul Skinner <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:56:45 -0500
So, the moral of this script is that Aliases aren't what I thought
they were. I thought that they were references to the inode or some
such, and didn't care about the file properties like names. Other than
namespace collisions at the folders level that is. The solution seems
to be to recreate the aliases as you modify the filenames. I had no
idea that this was so. Has it always been so? 10.5.8 AS 2.0.1.
set testFolder to "Mac HD:Users:paul:Desktop:testFolder"
tell application "Finder"
delete every file of folder testFolder
set file1 to (make new file at testFolder with properties
{name:"file1"}) as alias
set file2 to (make new file at testFolder with properties
{name:"file2"}) as alias
set names to {name of file1, name of file2}
-->{"file1", "file2"}
set the name of file1 to "tempName"
set file1 to (file1 as text) as alias
set names to {name of file1, name of file2}
--{"tempName", "file2"}
set the name of file2 to "file1"
set file2 to (file2 as text) as alias
set names to {name of file1, name of file2}
-->{"file1", "file1"}
set the name of file1 to "file2"
set names to {name of file1, name of file2}
set file1 to (file1 as text) as alias
-->{"tempName", "file2"}
say "Oh."
end tell
On Jan 3, 2010, at 11:39 AM, Paul Skinner wrote:
set testFolder to "Mac HD:Users:paul:Desktop:testFolder"
tell application "Finder"
delete every file of folder testFolder
set file1 to (make new file at testFolder with properties
{name:"file1"}) as alias
set file2 to (make new file at testFolder with properties
{name:"file2"}) as alias
set names to {name of file1, name of file2}
-->{"file1", "file2"}
set the name of file1 to "tempName"
set names to {name of file1, name of file2}
--{"tempName", "file2"}
set the name of file2 to "file1"
set names to {name of file1, name of file2}
-->{"file1", "file1"}
set the name of file1 to "file2"
set names to {name of file1, name of file2}
-->{"tempName", "file2"}
say "What?"
end tell
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