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Re: can I copy to a drop folder?
- To: espen@coli.uni-sb.de (Espen J. Vestre)
- Subject: Re: can I copy to a drop folder?
- From: bill@cambridge.apple.com (Bill St. Clair)
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 15:34:39 -0600
- Cc: info-mcl
>I would like to be able to copy a file to a "drop" folder, a folder into
>which I can drop things (with the Finder), but which I am not allowed to
>open.
>Using COPY-FILE directly doesn't work, because COPY-FILE tries to look
>into the folder, and thus violates the protection of the folder.
>Is it possible at all to do such a copy-operation from MCL? If not, is
>it possible to do it by sending appleevents to the Finder?
TechNote #165 is entitled "Creating Files Inside an AppleShare Drop Folder".
I have attempted to follow its instructions without success (After doing
#_Create, I get a "File Not Found" error from #_GetCatInfo). Has anyone
else successfully done this?