Mountain Lion and Applescript Folder Actions

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

Hi

Are folder actions still working under Lion and Mountain Lion? Checked all (?) settings more than once.

Regards
Lazy

#2

What’s your exact problem.
Here the feature behave flawlessly.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) dimanche 5 août 2012 18:56:48

#3

I define a folder and an applescript which deletes everything i put into the folder.

worked excellent up to now. now it just does’nt happen anything. in lion as well as in mountain lion.

#4

Here, this simple script behave flawlessly.


property useFinder : false

-- set this_folder to (path to desktop as text) & "Lazybear:" (* used for tests *)

on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
	
	(*
these_items is a list of alias
To get rid of possible failure, I don't treat the added items but every files available in the folder.
*)
	if useFinder then
		tell application "Finder"
			set the_files to every file of this_folder
			repeat with aFile in the_files
				delete aFile
			end repeat
		end tell
	else
		(*
Use System Events so the files aren't moved to the trash
*)
		set this_folder to this_folder as text
		
		tell application "System Events"
			set the_files to path of every disk item of folder this_folder whose visible is true
			repeat with aFile in the_files
				delete disk item (aFile as text)
			end repeat
		end tell
	end if
end adding folder items to

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 6 août 2012 12:07:26

#5

Hi Yvan

Your script works excellent. I’ll study your code. Thanks you

Lazy

#6

i am having troubles with folder actions in mountain lion i am using 10.8.1 and i try to enable a simple folder action like alert and it does not work i see there are a ton of people out there with this same issue is there any fix to it that will fix it from not working?

#7

Try delete
com.apple.FolderActions.plist and
com.apple.FolderActionsSetup.plist
in your user prefs folder.

Those may have become corrupted…