Comments on: Finder and glob http://MacDeveloperTips.com/applescript/finder-and-glob.html Tips, tools and code for iPhone and Mac developers. Tue, 01 May 2012 00:21:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Andre http://MacDeveloperTips.com/applescript/finder-and-glob.html/comment-page-1#comment-798 Andre Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:00:39 +0000 http://MacDeveloperTips.com/applescript/finder-and-glob.html#comment-798 Hi prijker Unfortunately this is not possible due to a limitation of the Finder's select command. This limitation has existed for a while and at the time of 10.5.7 is still there. It is easy to modify the script to find all the files recursively as it just means modifying the shell script used, but it is not possible to tell the Finder to select all found matches within the same window in list view. The way the select command works at the moment is that it will open a Finder window for each new base path in the matches list and select the file in this opened window. There are some Finder properties in its dictionary right now (completely expanded, expandable) and one command (expand) which deal with list and outline views but these are disabled. Once they are enabled they could theoretically be used to work around this issue by means of checking the properties and looping through all expanded folders in a list view and then calling select on a new match on each loop round. cheers, Andre PS: I know this question is a year old :P Hi prijker

Unfortunately this is not possible due to a limitation of the Finder’s select command.
This limitation has existed for a while and at the time of 10.5.7 is still there.

It is easy to modify the script to find all the files recursively as it just means modifying the shell script used, but it is not possible to tell the Finder to select all found matches within the same window in list view. The way the select command works at the moment is that it will open a Finder window for each new base path in the matches list and select the file in this opened window.

There are some Finder properties in its dictionary right now (completely expanded, expandable) and one command (expand) which deal with list and outline views but these are disabled. Once they are enabled they could theoretically be used to work around this issue by means of checking the properties and looping through all expanded folders in a list view and then calling select on a new match on each loop round.

cheers,

Andre

PS: I know this question is a year old :P

]]> By: prijker http://MacDeveloperTips.com/applescript/finder-and-glob.html/comment-page-1#comment-271 prijker Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:34:37 +0000 http://MacDeveloperTips.com/applescript/finder-and-glob.html#comment-271 Hello this is a great script How could I rewrite it to recursively search through folders? Vic. Hello
this is a great script
How could I rewrite it to recursively search through folders?

Vic.

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