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 ""ed form of posix path of aFolder
-Mark
Who likes touching folders.