Re: reveal ?
Re: reveal ?
- Subject: Re: reveal ?
- From: Jean-Christophe Helary <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 14:51:50 +0900
I think I found the culprit: when the files are grouped by tag, reveal fails,
regardless of the size of the folder. In (seemingly) any folder, any other
grouping will result in a successful reveal...
Can somebody reproduce this ? Or is it specific to the messy state of the tags
on my machine ?
Jean-Christophe
> On Jan 17, 2019, at 12:27, Jean-Christophe Helary <email@hidden
> <mailto:email@hidden>> wrote:
>
>
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>> On Jan 17, 2019, at 10:13, Shane Stanley <email@hidden
>> <mailto:email@hidden>> wrote:
>>
>> On 17 Jan 2019, at 11:48 am, Jean-Christophe Helary <email@hidden
>> <mailto:email@hidden>> wrote:
>>>
>>> There are currently about 1300 files
>>
>> FWIW, I sometimes see the problem when there are large numbers of files.
>> It's as if the file gets selected (Get Info shows it is), but the containing
>> folder's window doesn't scroll far enough to show it. It seems more likely
>> to happen if the window hasn't been opened recently. I concluded the problem
>> is in the tools telling the Finder what to do, but rather in either the
>> Finder itself, or the table view the Finder is using to display the list.
>> Purely speculation.
>
> Thank you Shane.
>
> In my case, the window displays the file. In my test, I get the path to the
> file, puts it into the script and before running it move the selection one
> file up or down. The result is that that same file is selected and Info
> points at the enclosing folder.
>
> When I close the folder, it opens but no file is selected.
>
> As far as my test goes, reveal only works in that folder if the file has no
> tag.
>
> In other folders 'with much less files *and* tags), the presence of tags does
> not seem to affect the result.
>
>
> Jean-Christophe Helary
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