Re: reveal ?
Re: reveal ?
- Subject: Re: reveal ?
- From: Jean-Christophe Helary <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 10:04:45 +0900
[Dana, I thought you intended to post to the list and not to me personally so
I'm replying to the list)
> On Jan 18, 2019, at 2:57, Dana Stevens <email@hidden
> <mailto:email@hidden>> wrote:
>
> Failed to mention in my earlier reply that the reveal file was highlighted in
> the finder window when the arrange was set to any option other than “Tags."
I can reproduce that. That's what I meant by "reveal fails" :)
The other issue is that when a file is already selected in the window, the
selection doesn't go away, so you end up having an unrevealed selected file and
an unselected revealed file... That's messy :)
Jean-Christophe
> On Jan 18, 2019, at 2:01, Dana Stevens <email@hidden
> <mailto:email@hidden>> wrote:
>
> Did a short test on my system (iMac OS 10.13.4). Found that the file
> targeted by reveal was not highlighted in the finder window when the window
> was arranged by tags but the file was actually retrieved by the reveal. I
> tested using just a few files in the folder and only checked the open command
> using a text tile and a pdf file.
>
> tell application "Finder"
> set a to reveal “your:file:name.txt"
> activate
> open a
> end tell
>
>
>
>> On Jan 17, 2019, at 12:51 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary <email@hidden
>> <mailto:email@hidden>> wrote:
>>
>> 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:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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
>>> -----------------------------------------------
>>> http://mac4translators.blogspot.com <http://mac4translators.blogspot.com/>
>>> @brandelune
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Jean-Christophe Helary
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>> @brandelune
>>
>>
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