[OS X TeX] Getting Finder to Refresh

[Claus Gerhardt]

Herb,

This was your original question

will convert all the .pgn's to .tex's) but the Finder takes it bloody 
time
to refresh and show the new .tex files in the folder. Is there a shell
command I can add to the script to tell the Finder to refresh window
contents?

That is exactly what the Finder does, showing the contents of a folder. 
If the file is e.g., a .tex file then a corresponding editor is going 
to display it and eventually to update it, not the Finder. Thus, what 
do you want to update and which application should do it?

I assume that you want the folder window to be updated, then get its 
path, the best is to use the shell command

dirname "path of test"

Claus

On Jan 21, 2005, at 22:46, Herb Schulz wrote:

> On 1/21/05 3:12 PM, "Claus Gerhardt" <gerhardt at math.uni-heidelberg.de>
> wrote:
>
>> Better syntax is
>>
>> On Jan 21, 2005, at 22:08, Claus Gerhardt wrote:
>>
>>> -e 'set theWindow to  "full path"as POSIX file'
>>
>> Claus
>>
>
> Howdy,
>
> I've got a folder with some file called 'test' on my Desktop. When I 
> try to
> run
>
> tell application "Finder"
>     set theWindow to "/Users/username/Desktop/test" as POSIX file
>     update theWindow
> end tell
>
> I get an error in Script Editor and the 'update theWindow' line is
> highlighted.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)
>
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