Re: What are the possible reasons the Finder would display an item "greyed out"?
Re: What are the possible reasons the Finder would display an item "greyed out"?
- Subject: Re: What are the possible reasons the Finder would display an item "greyed out"?
- From: James Bucanek <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 09:51:57 -0700
Paul Nelson <mailto:email@hidden> wrote (Tuesday, May 18,
2010 1:36 PM -0500):
Anyone know?
I'm a little late to this discussion, but the Finder has a magic
type/creator combination that will mark a file or folder as
"busy." The Finder will display the item in grey and refuse to
open it or otherwise let the user try to access it in any
significant way.
The idea is for a process, like a file download, that creates a
file over a long period of time would start by marking the file
as "busy" while the download is in progress. When done, it would
replace the magic type/creator with a real one and the finished
file would become usable.
I filed a bug against Tiger/Leopard that the Finder wasn't
honoring the busy type completely. And when I say completely, I
mean the way the Finder treats files that it's
copying/transferring. Snow Leopard both fixed and enhanced the
behavior. A busy folder, for example, appears as a grey, opaque,
file item that can't be opened until its finished downloading.
--
James Bucanek
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