Folder action reacts on "probe"...

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#1

I have a folder action that works “on adding folder items”. But the same folder is a hot folder for some program, so it’s checked from time to time. When it’s checked - something named “probe” appears for a second in a folder (I even don’t know, is it some kind of a file, or what?). So my folder action reacts on it and try to do what it suppose to do with a files - and I get an error, because this “probe” thing disappears.
Does anybody know what may be done?
Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Thank you in advance
Vera

#2

I posted my question on another forum, and got a solution: I did not know there is workaround in case of error!

Here it is:
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
repeat with this_item in these_items
set this_item to this_item’s contents
try
set _ignore to (info for this_item)'s name = “probe”
on error number -43 – File or directory not found; in case this_item has been already deleted
set _ignore to true
end try
if _ignore then
– ignore it
else
– your code for this_item, that is not named ‘probe’, here
end if
end repeat
end adding folder items to

Hope it might be helpful to everybody.
Vera

#3

Hi,

you can do it also this way


on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
	repeat with this_item in these_items
		try
			if (info for this_item)'s name is not "probe" then
				-- do something
			end if
		end try
	end repeat
end adding folder items to