Thanks Paul, I like your thinking. Unfortunately that isn't going to work
in this case. My Internal HD is overflowing and the last thing I need to do
is copy a couple of dozen large (>6 GB) folders across. I'm scripting (for
self use) a little utility to search a couple of my backup HDs to see if
I
On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 6:54 PM, Kay C Lan wrote:
> Still need to figure out how to Trash files/folders on an external HD.
>
OK, so External Trash folders are located here:
/Volumes//.Trashes/504
So if you have the full pathname to a folder that you want to move to the
Trash
put into tPath
se
On 4/7/2015 6:54 AM, Kay C Lan wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 6:15 PM, Kay C Lan wrote:
>
>> rename folder to specialFolderPath("empt") & "/" &
>> ""
>>
>> Only works for Trashing folders/files on the start up disk. Still need to
> figure out how to Trash files/folders on an external HD. Any hel
On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 6:15 PM, Kay C Lan wrote:
>
> rename folder to specialFolderPath("empt") & "/" &
> ""
>
> Only works for Trashing folders/files on the start up disk. Still need to
figure out how to Trash files/folders on an external HD. Any help
appreciated.
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On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Kay C Lan wrote:
>
> On a slight tangent, I thought there was a specialFolderPath("Trash"), but
> not so. How do I move a folder to the Trash of an external HD on OS X?
>
The late great Eric Chatonet was able to help here (from of List Post a
long time ago):
rena
The Dictionary says:
On Mac OS and OS X Systems, the revDeleteFolder command places the folder
in the Trash.
I'm not seeing that.
PPC 10.5.8 LC 6.6.5 - it's gone, the Trash is empty.
Intel 10.9.5 LC 7.0.4 rc3 - as above
The Dictionary says that revDeleteFolder hasn't changed since version
1.1.1,
