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Re: Finder Passing Copies of Folders Rather than the Originals
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Re: Finder Passing Copies of Folders Rather than the Originals


  • Subject: Re: Finder Passing Copies of Folders Rather than the Originals
  • From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 23:34:54 +1100

On 22 Feb 2015, at 11:03 pm, S. J. Cunningham <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Some folders actually _do_ have the Stationery bit set in the extended attributes (apple.com.Finder.Info) and the Finder honors it when called by Applescript but apparently not at other times.  One such folder on my system is the Documents folder!  Dropping it on the script app below causes the Finder to start to copy it.  Snow Leopard definitely has the problem but I am not sure about later releases of the OS.

FWIW, I don't see that here with Yosemite.

And I thought Snow Leopard was supposed to be beyond reproach ;-)

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


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