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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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