Re: Another "Lion" difference? Finder says it moves but it actually copies
Re: Another "Lion" difference? Finder says it moves but it actually copies
- Subject: Re: Another "Lion" difference? Finder says it moves but it actually copies
- From: David Crowe <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:50:22 -0700
Yvan;
Using unix mv instead of trying to deal with the move/duplicate commands in the Finder applescript dictionary sounds like a great idea. I hate converting filenames from Mac to Posix format, but that's a minor issue. I can get over that.
- David
> Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:46:39 +0100
> From: KOENIG Yvan <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Another "Lion" difference? Finder says it moves but it
> actually copies
> To: liste AppleScript US <email@hidden>
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> Le 27 déc. 2011 à 18:35, David Crowe a écrit :
>
>> Pre-lion I used to try, in the FInder of course, to move a file and, if that failed, would know that the source and destination were on different disks, and then try to duplicate the file (if that failed, then probably the destination was locked).
>>
>> However, with Lion, the 'move' command is working even between two disks, but it's actually doing a copy (duplicate).
>>
>> Has anyone else noticed this. I really do want to do a move, but it's now more difficult to determine when I need to clean up the original file.
>
> On my side, I use 'do shell script mv ∑' and so the command behave the same in both cases.
> I use the Finder only when the icons are triggered.
>
> Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 27 décembre 2011 20:46:34
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