From: "Chris Sheffield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri Feb 4, 2005 7:23:15 AM Australia/Melbourne To: "RevList" <[email protected]> Subject: "refresh" the Finder? Reply-To: How to use Revolution <[email protected]>
Does anyone know of some way that one can “refresh” the Finder under OS X?
I’m not even really sure if that’s the right question or not. Let me
explain.
I have an application that runs from CD-ROM. When the program launches, it
copies certain temporary files to the user’s preferences folder on the hard
drive. When the program exits, it deletes those files if the user chooses
to. The problem is that the folder where I store the files does not really
get deleted or something. It’s hard to explain. But if I navigate to the
Preferences folder, I see my temporary folder momentarily before it
disappears. Now, if I do that in between sessions of running my
application, everything’s fine. But if I don’t, then when the app runs
again, I get a file copy error. And it's strange because you would think
that if the files were there it would just overwrite them, but that's not
the case. Anyone know why this would be? Has anyone seen anything like
this before? It’s kind of the same thing where if you save a file from some
program (TextEdit for example) the file does not always appear listed in the
Finder until you refresh the view somehow (move to another folder then
back).
Anyone have any ideas on this? Something in Transciprt would be great, but
AppleScript or a shell command would be welcome too.
Chris - I had the same (very frustrating) problem a while back. No fix, sorry, but a couple of workarounds...
1. use applescript to move the files to the trash...
this script will move a specifed folder (containing your files) to the trash (sort of what you want?)
on trashMacFolder srcFolder
if there is a folder srcFolder then
put "tell application" && quote & "Finder" & quote & cr & tab & "move folder" && revPathtoApplescript(srcFolder) && "to trash" && cr & "end tell" into tScript
do tScript as AppleScript
end if
end trashMacFolder
2. use the rename command to move them to the trash
Cheers,
Terry...
Thanks,
Chris Sheffield Software Development Read Naturally [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dr Terry Judd Lecturer in Educational Technology (Design) Biomedical Multimedia Unit Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences The University of Melbourne Parkville VIC 3052 AUSTRALIA
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