Re: If/Then Statements

Subject: Re: If/Then Statements
From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:04:07 -0600

On Jan 26, 2010, at 9:11 AM, email@hidden wrote:

I am essentially creating a uninstaller script. The script I have works but if any element is already gone then it hangs at that point and gives an error. I need to put in some kind of if/then statement I believe so that when an error is returned it will move to the next line and so on until finished. Any suggestions out there would be much appreciated.

do shell script "rm -r /Applications/Utilities/'Keychain Minder.app'" with administrator privileges

I do that too. There are two ways to do it.

First ...

tell application "Finder"

if (exists file "fileName" of locationAlias) then

(file "fileName" of locationAlias) as alias

tell application "System Events" to delete disk item (the result as text)

end if

end tell

Or you can use this ...

tell application "Finder"

try

((locationAlias as text) & "fileName") as alias

tell application "System Events" to delete disk item (the result as text)

end try

end tell

If the file does not exist, then creating the alias from a text path fails.

Using "System Events" avoids putting anything in the Trash.

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