revCopyFile under Tiger

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Wed Jun 22 17:46:11 EDT 2005


On 6/22/05 1:59 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote:

> Here's an stupid thing that I'm hoping someone can help with.
> 
> When using revCopyFile under 10.4.1, I'm getting the annoying sound  
> that plays whenever you move/copy a file or folder to another  location 
> in the Finder.  In my opinion, revCopyFile should not play  that sound, 
> but I'm sure it does just cause it uses system services  to do the copy.
> 
> Anyone found a way to make that sound not play?  Preferably without  
> having to disable something in the OS.  What I'm doing is making a  
> little backup utility, and copying files like that with that sound  
> playing possibly hundreds of times is going to be *really* annoying,  to 
> say the least.
> 
> Using Rev 2.6, btw.

You could skip the Rev-scripted command, and just make your own. It 
isn't too hard. Just use "put url <old file path> into url <new file 
path>". If you need to copy OS X bundles then it gets a little more 
complex but it sounds like you are only asking about Windows files.

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