On 3/1/01 10:22 PM, "Jan Martel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
That's OK. I was annoyed because you said publicly that my script didn't
solve your problem, which would mean to anyone reading that comment that it
didn't work. It did work - it did exactly what you said you wanted done. You
didn't say you wanted more, or I would have provided more. I thought you had
said that the "missing downloads" problem only started with Allen's script
"Add Sender to Group", but maybe I misremembered..
<snip>
> 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.
The possibility occurred to me that you might indeed have more downloads in
that folder, and that's why I said "If you have any more downloads there,
substitute their names for "Add Sender to Group*"
The reason why I didn't just give you the extra line of script that would
have shown conclusively what was in the folder:
set allFiles to the entries in setVolFolder as alias
is because there were complicating factors. When I did this on my own
machine, I found two invisible files there, both Desktop files which are
important System files. I didn't want to have you delete those by accident
in case that made you lose important data or screwed your system, without
testing first. Or, there might even be other files in there that you might
need which I wouldn't know about. (In fact, according to Gary, trashing
those desktop files is how he rebuilds the desktop so it would have been
OK,, as long as you knew what you were doing.) So to delete just some extra
download files, which you didn't appear to think you had, while NOT
deleting important system files, might have taken a lot of time and effort
to test and to code, partly flying blind. So I was only going to do this if
you asked "How can I check to see if there might be other downloads in there
which I don't know about?" Because, you see, having a few download files in
there wasn't actually a problem at all and wasn't doing anybody or anything
any harm. Whereas trying to remove them just _might_ have done some harm, as
far as I could know. so it was better _not_ to do this without knowing more.
Did File Buddy show you the two Desktop files? if yes, did you delete them?
If Gary is correct, and I'm sure he is, that would mean that the next time
you restart your computer, you will see the progress window telling you that
the desktop is being rebuilt. Don't be alarmed. It will be OK after all.
>
> 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.
>
Sorry about that. There are a number of (I think) European male Jans on this
list. I learned some interesting stuff too. Deleting those two desktop files
must be exactly what a few utilities around do to rebuild the desktop. I
never knew where they were.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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