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

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From Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Finder copies folder when I try to open it. Why?
Date 22 Feb 2015 15:43:41 GMT
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On 2015-02-22, Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Feb 2015 15:35:58 -0500, Jolly Roger wrote
> (in article <cks8hdFq318U5@mid.individual.net>):
>
>> I think you should be able to use Spotlight to do it. Try this search
>> out:
>> 
>> mdfind "kMDItemFSIsStationery == 1 && kMDItemKind == 'Folder'"
>
> LOL!  That finds a bunch of them... including my "Documents" folder.  I 
> _know_ I didn't create that one.  Sure enough, when I drop it on my 
> script app, the finder starts generating a copy of it.
>
>> Perhaps my mdfind syntax isn't quite right...
>
> Or maybe they fixed it in Yosemite?  I am still using Snow Leopard.

Ah. I missed that detail. I suppose it could simply be that Snow Leopard
honors the setting for folders, while Yosemite does not honor it.

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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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