Re: Folder actions - interesting behaviour depending on how items are added to the folder
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: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 23:43:53 -0400
No. The folder action is on a folder that is in my user folder.
It never gets triggered if the items that are moved in or copied in come from a remote AFP volume. That's the only remote source I've tested it with.
On Jul 17, 2012, at 8:43 PM, Shane Stanley wrote:
> 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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