Common writable folders

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Thu Jan 18 16:46:38 EST 2007


Ken Ray wrote:

> you needt to escape the backslash because AppleScript uses that 
> for its own purposes. Try this:
> 
>   put "chmod 777 /Library/Application\\ Support/myfolder/" into tShellCmd
>   put "do shell script" &&quote& tShellCmd &quote&& "with administrator 
> privileges" into tCmd
>   do tCmd as applescript
>   put the result

That seems to work too, good to know. But see my other note, I got it to 
work without any backslash at all.

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