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Re: Finder's "exists" command ignores leading zero's in filename
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Re: Finder's "exists" command ignores leading zero's in filename

  • Subject: Re: Finder's "exists" command ignores leading zero's in filename
  • From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 09:26:26 -0500
On May 22, 2014, at 4:20 PM, Stan Cleveland wrote:

On May 22, 2014, at 1:14 PM, Luther Fuller wrote:

Has anyone seen it documented? And, if so, then where?

It's outdated and not specific to AS, but there's relevant information at http://support.apple.com/kb/TA22935

From that, it's clear that any portion of a file name that can be interpreted as a number, for purposes of sorting, will be. And, of course, leading zeros have no significance in a numeric sort. 

Outdated or not, this seems to be the explanation for this behavior.

Consequently, the Finder is seeing files which are not there while the '... as alias' conversion does not see them.
Using aliases or System Events seems to be the proper work-around for this "problem".




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 >Re: Finder's "exists" command ignores leading zero's in filename (From: Stan Cleveland <email@hidden>)

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