[Pythonmac-SIG] Finder Crash, after moving files....

[Paul Berkowitz]

On 7/6/04 2:23 PM, "Jack Jansen" <Jack.Jansen at cwi.nl> wrote:

> Ok, you asked for it. Here's how you can get Python out of the loop:
> in stead of actually doing the move with findertools, let your Python
> script
> create an AppleScript that will do the actual moves: on stdout (or
> another
> file) print lines of the form "move XXXX to YYYY", put a 'tell
> application "Finder"'
> at the top and 'end tell' at the bottom. Open this is Script Editor and
> run it, and
> see whether it also freezes the finder after 4000 moves.

If it's an AppleScript in a Finder tell block you'll first have to coerce
POSIX file paths to standard colon-delimited AppleScript file paths, then to
aliases. In AppleScript that would be:

    set XXXX to POSIX file XXXX as alias
    set YYYY to POSIX file YYYY as alias -- YYYY is a directory, not a file
spec
    tell application "Finder" to move XXXX to YYYY


-- 
Paul Berkowitz