Moving directories

Sjoerd Op 't Land sjoerdoptland at mac.com
Sun Dec 30 07:42:00 EST 2001


Karl Becker wrote/ schreef:

> The rename function doesn't move directories on Mac and Windows.  D'oh.
> What would be the easiest way to go about moving one complete folder
> to a new location?  (copying or moving, either way)  I suppose I
> could write up some sort of repeat loop to repeat thru a folder's
> hierarchy and file list, but I'd imagine there's an easier way...
For apple, you could execute the following AppleScript:

tell application "Finder" to move folder "HD Sjoerd:Desktop Folder:1:2" to
folder "HD Sjoerd:Desktop Folder"

with 
  do <script> as AppleScript

For Windows... maybe execute some shell()???

> Mucho thanks, and Happy New Year to everyone!
Regards, / Groeten,
Sjoerd




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