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tenderhooks

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Jul 13, 2011, 8:01:45 AM7/13/11
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Is there anything for GROWL that will tell me when a file copy/move
operation is complete within Finder in OS X?

Thanks!

Christopher Forsythe

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Jul 13, 2011, 12:58:13 PM7/13/11
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You should be able to do that with the Finder folder actions with an applescript.

Chris


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Peter Hosey

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Jul 13, 2011, 1:10:36 PM7/13/11
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On Jul 13, 2011, at 09:58:13, Christopher Forsythe wrote:
> You should be able to do that with the Finder folder actions with an applescript.

… which you will have to set up in advance for specific folders; this won't get you copy/move notifications for any destination.

tenderhooks

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Jul 13, 2011, 4:58:59 PM7/13/11
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Well thwarted.

If not a folder script then what? It's a surprise that there isn't
anything for the OS itself like there is for the established apps
(even though development is being retired to a single programmer).

Is there nothing available to me?

Aaron Davies

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Jul 13, 2011, 11:06:03 PM7/13/11
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On Jul 13, 2011, at 4:58 PM, tenderhooks wrote:

> Well thwarted.
>
> If not a folder script then what? It's a surprise that there isn't
> anything for the OS itself like there is for the established apps
> (even though development is being retired to a single programmer).
>
> Is there nothing available to me?

that'd be a pretty low-level thing to hook into

i'm sure it's technically possible, but it'd probably require a kernel extension or a mach injection or an inputmanager or some other haxie-type trick

unless of course apple actually exposes a hook-able event for "finder completes a copy", but i'm assuming it doesn't....
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tenderhooks

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Jul 14, 2011, 8:29:40 PM7/14/11
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ah, then it's off the cards
> aaron.dav...@gmail.com

Christopher Forsythe

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Jul 14, 2011, 8:31:19 PM7/14/11
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Can you send me an email describing the use case here? My direct email is ch...@growl.info

Chris

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