"refresh" the Finder?

James.Cass at sealedair.com James.Cass at sealedair.com
Fri Feb 4 10:22:39 EST 2005


Frank -

Thanks for the Safety Tip.  But, in this _specific case_, there wouldn't 
be any harm any accidentally deleting a file that's in the Trash. 
Although, I know MANY users that actually STORE files in their Trash. Your 
method is _definitely preferred_ over what I suggested.

Humbled.....James






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Warning!! Warning!!

Using "/Users/" & $USER -- this is a dangerous assumption, as it is
possible for the user's home directory to be somewhere completely
different, such as on a network volume!

Rather, you should use something like this:

delete folder $HOME & "/.Trash/foldername"

The $HOME environment variable is present on most *NIX systems
(including OS X) and points to the correct home directory, even if it
is on a server or in some location other than the default.

On Feb 3, 2005, at 11:12 PM, James Cass wrote:

>>>> Does anyone know if there's a way to remove a
>>>> specific folder from the trash using AppleScript?
>
> Come to think of it, why not use the Rev "delete folder" command?
> Again, if the folder is already in the Trash, you could do this:
>       delete folder "/Users/" & $USER & "/.Trash/foldername"
>
> Goodnight Everybody!  Drive home safely!
> -James
>
>
> On Feb 3, 2005, at 10:55 PM, James Cass wrote:
>
>> Sorry if I'm way off on this but, I just jumped in here.
>> 1.  If you just want to update a Finder window, you can do that with
>> the Applescript "update folder pathToFolder".  I've had to use this
>> to refresh the contents of open Finder windows.  I don't do that any
>> more though.
>> 2.  If you want to delete something that's already in Trash (seems
>> weird), you can use the shell command:  rm
>> /Users/$USER/.Trash/filename
>>
>> HTH...James
>>
>>
>>
>> On Feb 3, 2005, at 10:32 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:
>>
>>> Chris,
>>>
>>> I seem to remember something about the ability to 'touch' a
>>> directory using shell scripts which should do what you want.
>>>
>>> See,
>>> http://www.dartmouth.edu/~rc/classes/ksh/print_pages.shtml
>>>
>>> Or Google Mac shell touch.
>>>
>>> -Chipp
>>>
>>> Chris Sheffield wrote:
>>>
>>>> The problem now is that it just places the folder in the Trash, and
>>>> it
>>>> didn't do that before.  Does anyone know if there's a way to remove
>>>> a
>>>> specific folder from the trash using AppleScript?  I tried using
>>>> the empty
>>>> command followed by the reference to the folder in the trash, but
>>>> it didn't
>>>> work.  If not, I'll just empty the trash, but I thought that's
>>>> probably not
>>>> a very nice thing to do.  Shouldn't be a big deal in this case,
>>>> however.
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