Am 17.03.2010 um 06.10 schrieb steve harley:
On 2010-03-16 19:02 , Rudolf O. Durrer wrote:
tell app "Sherlock"
activate
search {disk or folder name} for x
end tell
That does not work anymore with spotlight, which seems not to be
scriptable.
you can use the shell, via AppleScript, to script Spotlight; here's
a good intro:
<http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=24765>
Short replay:
Many thanks for the answer, unfortunately that does not solve my
problem.
Longer reply :-)
When I was young and handsome and simple computers used to be as big
as my sleeping room, I studied mathematics, I was impressed by
computers and even learned to program simple things in Fortran and
owned some computers as soon as they were small enough to stand on my
desk.
But that's centuries ago, I'm not young anymore and my life made a few
unexpected U-Turns now and then and I finally ended up with a master
of law degree and the computers on my desk became more and more
usefull because they used software allowing normal people to do a few
scripting/computing using simple english words and without the need of
profound knowledge of programming and interpreting long lists of
computer output lines on the screen and I considered that as the
biggest revolution in making computers available to everyone.
But history too makes U-Turns and so the shell and the command line
sneeked their way back into the nice little modern computers giving
geeks an extraordinary way to communicate with their machines, but for
the rest of the user world that reappearance of the command line in
Apples OS was only a big step backward to computers middle ages and a
hindering of efficiency.
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