site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com APP_DIR="Applications/PromoStudio" APP_NAME="PromoStudio.app" # weird thing but we have to touch the .app before we can create an # alias touch "$LINK_FROM" and in my log file this is spat out: thanks, ken; _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.a... in my postflight script that is run i have the followign bit of scripting: ### # note about creating the alias ... # the strange syntax is necessary because of differences between os10.1, 10.2, and 10.3 # 10.3 doesn't return a full colon-seperated path for a user's file, instead it just starts # with the user's name, which will not work for creating the alias. LINK_FROM="$3$APP_DIR/$APP_NAME" echo "Our linkable app is $LINK_FROM" >> $LOG_FILE colonfrom=`osascript -e "tell application \"Finder\" to set p1 to (POSIX FILE \"$LINK_FROM\") as file"` colonto=`osascript -e "tell application \"Finder\" to set p1 to (POSIX FILE \"/Users\") as file"` colonto=$colonto"$USER:Desktop:" echo "Creating alias (from: $colonfrom, to: $colonto)" >> $LOG_FILE osascript -e "tell application \"Finder\" to make new alias at \"$colonto\" to file \"$colonfrom\"" Our linkable app is /Applications/PromoStudio/PromoStudio.app Creating alias (from: file Macintosh HD:Applications:PromoStudio:PromoStudio.app:, to: file Macintosh HD:Users:ken:Desktop:) with 10.3 this worked fine and dandy however with tiger this does not create anything on the desktop at all so i have a couple of questions. is this happening to anyone else? is there a new(better) way to create aliases on a users desktop? and finally, where does the osascript log to? This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com