Common writable folders

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Thu Jan 18 16:26:58 EST 2007


sims wrote:

> You'll find more info on this at: 
> http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2065.html

Aha! Okay, I got it work. The above web page helped. Apparently 
applescript doesn't want you to escape spaces in shell commands even 
while it is using POSIX paths. And I was using the wrong quote marks.

This now works, and it is a one-liner:

do shell script "chmod 777 '/Library/Application Support/myFolder/'" 
with administrator privileges

I wish AppleScript worked like Revolution. Life would be so much easier.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com



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