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Re: Toggle invisible files


  • Subject: Re: Toggle invisible files
  • From: Phil Stokes <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 10:52:41 +0700


On 10 Nov 2016, at 07:20, Shane Stanley <email@hidden> wrote:

there are several values other than "1"

‘Yes’, ‘true’ and ‘1’ - you’re right I was a bit hasty there. I could have put all three in the conditional but balked at the verbosity of it. I like your boolean trick - I didn’t know you could do that -  
but in my script SD chokes on the conditional,  returning 

—> Error: Can’t make ‘0’ into type boolean.

set _show to "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles 1; killall Finder"
set _hide to "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles 0; killall Finder"
set _readCurrent to "defaults read com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles"

set _state to do shell script _readCurrent
if not _state as boolean then # FAILS HERE 
do shell script _show
else
do shell script _hide
end if


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