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"H =:o) L G I" <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:39:01 +0100
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tell application "Finder"
	repeat with i from 1 to count of Finder windows
		tell window i
			try
				update every item with necessity
			end try
		end tell
	end repeat
end tell
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Am 14.03.2008 um 03:00 schrieb MACSCRPT automatic digest system:

> There is 1 message totalling 43 lines in this issue.
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> Topics of the day:
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>   1. Bug in "list folder" in Standard Additions
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> Date:    Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:59:39 +1030
> From:    Emmett Gray <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Bug in "list folder" in Standard Additions
>
> Update is lame, it won't work on a folder - i.e. i.e. tell  
> application "Finder" to update alias foo will not update the  
> contents of foo, only foo itself. Lame. That's why I had to get a  
> lists of the contents using ls. Touch does the job in one line.
>
> --Emmett
>
>> Walter Bushell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> IIRC update (the Finder command) does the job, also.
>>
>> On Mar 4, 2008, at 11:20 AM, Mark Lively wrote:
>>
>>> On Mar 4, 2008, at 10:56 AM, Emmett Gray wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've found a bug (10.4.11) which is probably still in Leopard
>>>> since I looked at the Leopard bug fix technote and it's not
>>>> mentioned. I've reported the bug to Apple.
>>>>
>>> Looks like it is fixed in leopard.  Not to surprising since the old
>>> system event osax was built on top of FSRefs which are deprecated
>>> in Leopard.
>>>
>>>> If the target folder of the "list folder" command has a name
>>>> longer than 32 characters you get a "bad filename" error. I can't
>>>> use the Finder to get the info because the very reason I'm needing
>>>> the command for is to force the lazy Finder to update the contents
>>>> of the folder!
>>>>
>>> I use touch to update the folder.
>>>
>>> set aFolder to choose folder
>>> do shell script "touch "&quoted form of posix path of aFolder
>>>
>>> -Mark
>>> Who likes touching folders.
>>>
>>
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