Filesystem related Applescript

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#1

Anyone know a good guide somewhere on Filesystem related applescript commands?

Thanxs,

Steve Griff

#2

What sorts of tasks are you looking for?

As for a guide, the absolute best way to see this sort of thing is to look at AppleScript dictionaries and scripting additions’ dictionaries.

#3

Open the Finder.app dictionary in Script Editor.app, go to “Containers and folders” suite - “disk” and you have “format” (Mac OS format/Mac OS Extended format/UFS format/NFS format/audio format/ProDOS format/MS-DOS format/NTFS format/ISO 9660 format/High Sierra format/QuickTake format/Apple Photo format/AppleShare format/UDF format/WebDAV format/FTP format/Packet-written UDF format/Xsan format/unknown format, r/o) and “journaling enabled” (boolean, r/o).

So for example if you wanted to check what type of filesystem a certain mounted disk is, you would do:

tell application "Finder"
	set myFormat to format of disk "NO_NAME"
end tell
-- for example my digital camera has got MS-DOS format

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