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Re: Folder actions - interesting behaviour depending on how items are added to the folder
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Re: Folder actions - interesting behaviour depending on how items are added to the folder


  • Subject: Re: Folder actions - interesting behaviour depending on how items are added to the folder
  • From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:43:05 +1000

On 18/07/2012, at 4:00 AM, Alex Zavatone wrote:

> It appears that folder actions do not register that files have been added if the items being added are being copied from another server volume to the folder they are attached to.

Are you saying that both folders are on remote volumes? If so, I'm not surprised. But then I've always found folder actions, um, temperamental.

> 	do shell script "zip -r -j " & zipFile & " " & itemPath

OT, but you really should use ditto instead of zip if you don't want to lose resource forks.


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Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
'AppleScriptObjC Explored' <www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>


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