Re: Can't get the change download folder in Safari script to work - ui scripting
Re: Can't get the change download folder in Safari script to work - ui scripting
- Subject: Re: Can't get the change download folder in Safari script to work - ui scripting
- From: Tommy Bollman <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 22:01:09 +0100
Hello Luther and thanks for the effort.
I agree totally with you about UIscripting :-). But I know that Yvan's solution will work once I have translated it (from French to Norwegian element titles ).
It's just that I can't kick Safari to read in the preferences/default values without restarting it.
That might not allways be an option, since I may have 3 or four sets of windows, which
turns into a mess even with the "Restore Session" plugin. -I loose "state" when that happens.
Do any of you manage to make Safari notice that the preferences / default has changed, or is that
only with Safari (5.04) and SL 10.6.6 - at my machine. I really have to quit Safari in order to
make changes in defaults and preferences take effect as it is today, and then I think Yvan's solution is the most "right" for me, UIScripting or not.
Tommy
Den 13. mars 2011 kl. 20.24 skrev Luther Fuller:
> On Mar 13, 2011, at 10:30 AM, Tommy Bollman wrote:
>
>> Hello. I have som problems with Getting the block marked #!? to work,
>> I'm using Safari v.5.03 and I think that the layaout of the ui-elements has changed some.
>
> Never use UI scripting unless you absolutely, positively have to.
>
> I just could not resist finding a non-GUI solution to this.
> The location of Safari's downloads folder is stored in Safari's
> preference file "com.apple.Safari.plist" in the key "DownloadsPath".
>
> All you have to do is write a new value to this key. Here's the script ...
>
> on run
> set DLFolderAlias to my getDownloadFolder()
> my setSafariDLFolder(DLFolderAlias)
> beep
> end run --------------------
>
> on getDownloadFolder()
> set pText to "Choose a new download folder for Safari ..."
> set DLFolder to choose folder with prompt pText default location (path to desktop) -- error -128 on cancel
> return DLFolder -- an alias
> end getDownloadFolder --------------
>
> on setSafariDLFolder(folderAlias)
> set folderPath to (POSIX path of folderAlias)
> set prefsFolder to (path to preferences folder from user domain)
> tell application "Finder" to set prefsFile to (file "com.apple.Safari.plist" of prefsFolder) as alias
> tell application "System Events" to set infoRecord to value of property list file (prefsFile as text) -- READ
> set infoRecord to {DownloadsPath:folderPath} & infoRecord -- MODIFY
> tell application "System Events" to set value of property list file (prefsFile as text) to infoRecord -- WRITE
> end setSafariDLFolder ---------------
>
> And, yes, I did try it and it worked.
>
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