Fetch Softworks

Alias Upload: script vs. manual (3 posts)

• Started 20 years ago by mfwills
• Latest reply 20 years ago from mfwills

• mfwills Member

  I have a folder which contains real HTML text files and aliased JPG files. In AppleScript, I do this

  tell application "Fetch"
  activate
  open remote item "ftp://password:domain.com/www/htdocs/"
  put into transfer window "domain.com" item alias "HD:Desktop Folder:snafu:"
  end tell

  THe HTML docs get transferred fine; the aliased JPGs show up on the server, but with zero content. Apprently Fetch uploads the alias itself, not the original.

  If I manually drag an alias onto Fetch, the original file gets uploaded.

  Why the difference? Is there something in Fetch that differentiates, or is it caused by using a script? What might I do to either Fetch prefs or the script to fix it?

  Posted 20 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  It isn't caused by using a script, it is a distinction between transfering individual files and transfering a folder. Fetch will resolve an alias if you ask it to transfer one item, but not if you ask it to transfer the contents of a folder (the reasoning was that an alias could point to another folder that is a parent of the one being transfered, causing an infinite loop).

  You could write a more elaborate AppleScript that asked Fetch to transfer the files one by one, or you could keep the actual files in the folder you want to transfer; I can't think of any other work-arounds.

  Thanks,

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 20 years ago #

• mfwills Member

  I had been using the alias to safeguard the original JPG against accidental disposal, but now that I think of it, I don't see any reason why I can't just copy the JPG to the folder instead of aliasing it.

  Posted 20 years ago #