Re: Ghost Comments
Re: Ghost Comments
- Subject: Re: Ghost Comments
- From: Iurista GmbH <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:50:36 +0100
Well, it's really easy to check that it is stored in .DS_STORE:
Enable invisibles to be shown
Create a new folder, manually or by your script
Add Comment
Open the .DS_Store with TextEdit.app, et voilà, you will see your comment, among some unreadable scratch
Rudolf
Am 18.02.2012 um 11.14 schrieb Axel Luttgens:
> Le 18 févr. 2012 à 00:46, Luther Fuller a écrit :
>
>> While working on a script this afternoon, I noticed something that shouldn't happen.
>> So, I wrote this quick test script (in 10.6.8) to discover what was happening ...
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> After the first run, you will have a folder "TEST" on your desktop.
>> Get Info for this folder and enter some text in the comment field. Close Get Info.
>>
>> Now run this script again, and again, and ...
>>
>> Every time it runs, it displays the text you entered in the comment field.
>> Yet the folder and presumably its comment have been deleted on each run.
>>
>> The fix is to use this:
>> set newFolder to (make new folder at deskAlias with properties {name:"TEST", comment:""}) as alias
>>
>> Anyone have an explanation?
>
> IIRC, starting with 10.4, those comments are stored as metadata.
> But it seems that the Finder is somehow (and possibly somewhat erroneously) caching the info:
>
> tell application "Finder"
> if (exists folder "TEST" of desktop) then tell application "System Events" to delete folder "TEST" of desktop folder
> tell (make new folder at desktop with properties {name:"TEST"})
> comment of it
> --> "previously entered comment"
> it as alias
> end tell
> end tell
> do shell script "mdls -name kMDItemFinderComment " & quoted form of POSIX path of result
> --> "kMDItemFinderComment = (null)"
>
> By setting the comment while creating the new folder, you are updating that cached info.
> Alternatively, you may let the finder know what's happening instead of doing various things behind the scene:
>
> tell application "Finder"
> if (exists folder "TEST" of desktop) then delete folder "TEST" of desktop
> tell (make new folder at desktop with properties {name:"TEST"})
> comment of it
> --> ""
> it as alias
> end tell
> end tell
> do shell script "mdls -name kMDItemFinderComment " & quoted form of POSIX path of result
> --> "kMDItemFinderComment = (null)"
>
> But I really don't know how the Finder caches such data; just restarting it isn't sufficient.
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