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Re: Finder copies folder when I try to open it. Why?

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On 2015-02-21, Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks Roger & Dave.  I now know more than I care to about Extended 
> Attributes :)  The folders in question were created a couple of years 
> ago, probably on Snow Leopard (which is where I am today).  Copying one 
> of these toxic folders spawns another one.  I am finding more of them 
> by trial and error.  Actually, if I hadn't written that script I would 
> have probably never noticed it.

I suspected they were created in previous (buggy) versions of Mac OS X. 

> I tried to remove all the apple.com.FinderInfo's... whoops!  There went 
> all my aliases and labels and who knows what else.  Fortunately I had a 
> backup to restore from.  

Haha! Lucky you had backups. : ) Yeah, you definitely don't want to
delete all of them indiscriminately.

> I don't see any quick way to search through my 
> drives (I have discovered problem folders on at least two different 
> ones) and find just the folders with the stationery bit set and then 
> clear it.  I guess I'll just work around it on a case by case basis.

I think you should be able to use Spotlight to do it. Try this search
out:

mdfind "kMDItemFSIsStationery == 1 && kMDItemKind == 'Folder'"

> I'm guessing I'm not the only one who has these folders but most people 
> just never notice because they don't do anything that triggers the 
> problem.  It's probably still around in OS X > 10.6.8.

I seem to have a bunch of them (according to the Spotlight search above,
at least), but can't seem to duplicate the behavior you are seeing with
your droplet script for some reason. Here's one such folder:

# mdls ~/Desktop/Cracking\ SuperFish/pemcrack-master/bin/mac
kMDItemContentCreationDate     = 2015-02-19 21:12:50 +0000
kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2015-02-19 21:12:50 +0000
kMDItemContentType             = "public.folder"
kMDItemContentTypeTree         = (
    "public.folder",
    "public.directory",
    "public.item"
)
kMDItemDateAdded               = 2015-02-20 15:30:43 +0000
kMDItemDisplayName             = "mac"
kMDItemFSContentChangeDate     = 2015-02-19 21:12:50 +0000
kMDItemFSCreationDate          = 2015-02-19 21:12:50 +0000
kMDItemFSCreatorCode           = ""
kMDItemFSFinderFlags           = 12
kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon         = (null)
kMDItemFSInvisible             = 0
kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden     = 0
kMDItemFSIsStationery          = 1
kMDItemFSLabel                 = 6
kMDItemFSName                  = "mac"
kMDItemFSNodeCount             = 1
kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID          = 20
kMDItemFSOwnerUserID           = 502
kMDItemFSSize                  = (null)
kMDItemFSTypeCode              = ""
kMDItemKind                    = "Folder"
kMDItemUserTags                = (
    Red
)

Yet when I drop this folder on the droplet script, all that happens is
the "Drop Entry", "Main: aList", and "Quitting" dialogs appear. The
folder does not get duplicated.

Perhaps my mdfind syntax isn't quite right...

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Finder copies folder when I try to open it.  Why? Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2015-02-20 06:30 -0500
  Re: Finder copies folder when I try to open it.  Why? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-02-20 12:49 +0000
    Re: Finder copies folder when I try to open it.  Why? Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2015-02-20 10:07 -0500
      Re: Finder copies folder when I try to open it.  Why? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-02-20 11:04 -0500
        Re: Finder copies folder when I try to open it.  Why? Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2015-02-20 11:58 -0500
      Re: Finder copies folder when I try to open it.  Why? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-02-20 17:36 +0000
        Re: Finder copies folder when I try to open it.  Why? Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2015-02-20 12:53 -0500
          Re: Finder copies folder when I try to open it.  Why? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-02-20 20:14 +0000
            Re: Finder copies folder when I try to open it.  Why? Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2015-02-20 17:38 -0500
              Re: Finder copies folder when I try to open it.  Why? Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2015-02-20 17:55 -0500
                Re: Finder copies folder when I try to open it.  Why? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-02-21 17:08 +1300
                Re: Finder copies folder when I try to open it.  Why? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-02-21 15:29 +0000
                Re: Finder copies folder when I try to open it.  Why? Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2015-02-21 13:26 -0500
                Re: Finder copies folder when I try to open it.  Why? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-02-21 20:35 +0000
                Re: Finder copies folder when I try to open it.  Why? Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2015-02-21 22:25 -0500
                Re: Finder copies folder when I try to open it.  Why? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-02-22 15:43 +0000
              Re: Finder copies folder when I try to open it.  Why? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-02-20 22:59 +0000
                Re: Finder copies folder when I try to open it.  Why? Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2015-02-20 18:47 -0500

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