I'm sorry that my comment upset Paul. I very much appreciate all the help I
got with this problem, both from Paul and from the several people who
suggested File Buddy. I didn't mean to be critical when I commented that
although Paul's script had worked to remove the downloaded files of which I
was aware, I had needed to use File Buddy to remove everything else from the
folder. I don't understand his statement that he "could provide a way to
find out what else was in the folder" and his apparent unhappiness that I
didn't ask for this. I just went and looked at the message in which Paul
sent the script. It said:
>We don't want to trash all your files there because there are some important
files in there. Akua can both find all the script downloads (including extra
copies), it can also move them to the trash.
>Now open Script Editor and paste in this script, the check syntax and run it:
<snip script and explanation of result>
>If you have any more downloads there, substitute their names for "Add Sender to
Group*" (leave that asterisk in here: it's what takes care of the extra
copies.)
I read that as meaning that in order to find and remove other items from the
invisible folder, I'd have to know their names, in order to substitute them
for "add sender to group." Since I didn't know what else was there, I
couldn't do this. Apparently I misunderstood.
Again, I appreciate the help everyone here provided and I am sorry if it
sounded as if I didn't.
Oh, and not that it matters, but I'm a she, not a he.
"Paul Berkowitz" wrote:
> On 3/1/01 9:04 PM, "Jan Martel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>> I provided Jan with a 3-line applescript (here) yesterday, he used it, and
>>> it fixed his problem. That seems to have been the quickest way to go.
>>
>> Well, actually, it didn't, since it only deleted the items whose names I
>> knew about in the invisible folder; in order to delete things I didn't know
>> about, I got File Buddy and made the folder visible and dragged things to
>> the trash (turned out there wasn't anything except downloads that didn't
>> belong there in the folder, so I could have just deleted the whole folder,
>> but I didn't know that).
>
>
> As far as I knew, Jan wanted to do something about certain files which he
> had downloaded (although he didn't give the proper names of the download
> version of the files, as it turned out). I told him that I could provide a
> way to find out what else was in the folder but he didn't ask. It would have
> been one more line of script. He wrote me privately to tell me that my
> script solved his problem, said nothing to the list, and now he writes
> publicly to say that it didn't solve his problem, although - as it happens -
> he didn't know he had the problem he now says it didn't solve.
>
> I think I'd better take a break from trying to help people here. I don't
> really need this.
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