[insha]

I have recently upgraded to Panther from Jaguar; and now when I ctrl+click, say, a folder or a removable volume, in the context menu there is are two entries called "Enable Folder Actions" and "Configure Folder Actions..."

What are they and what is their benefit?

[Krusty]

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...folder+actions

[Moonray]

www.google.com/search?q="folder+actions"+site:apple.com

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[cybergoober]

Hmm. Guess I'll be non-elitist and answer your question.

Folder Actions are AppleScripts that you can attach to folders to do all kinds of stuff.
You can also find out more here.

[Krusty]

Originally posted by cybergoober:
Hmm. Guess I'll be non-elitist and answer your question.

Folder Actions are AppleScripts that you can attach to folders to do all kinds of stuff.
You can also find out more here.

Eh ? who was being elitist ? Apple's little 5 page intro is the most succinct, descriptive explanation out there ... all 3 of us linked him to the same pages, just in different ways.

[absmiths]

Originally posted by Krusty:
Eh ? who was being elitist ? Apple's little 5 page intro is the most succinct, descriptive explanation out there ... all 3 of us linked him to the same pages, just in different ways.

Some forum-dwellers like to boost their Karma by interpreting the actions of others as elitist, fascist, zealous, etc. After all, if I state that you are being krusty, the implication is of course that I am not (and therefore of greater nobility). The reality in this case however is that you are Krusty, and I am not, but that is a moot point . . .

[insha]

Thanks all. -- Will try to use the search function/google from now on before asking stupid questions.

Thanks, again.

[Macpilot]

This is one aspect of Panther I don't understand either. Maybe it stems from the fact that I don't fully understand the whole AppleScript thing either?

I read that apple page, and still don't see the idea.

So I click on a folder let's say, in my home folder, like Documents, and I select configure folder actions, and this little window pops up, which I have no idea the purpose of. So I click on the Help in the menu bar for Folder Action Setup and I get a message saying "Help isn't available".

Hmmmmmm

Guess I was not meant for this stuff. It upsets me because so much of the rest of OS X is so intuitive and obvious to me.

[Moonray]

It's not a 10.3 feature, attaching scripts to folders has been around since Mac OS 8 or 8.5.
The most common use would be to automatically perform actions on files you put in a folder. That can be sorting them by name into other folders, converting them into something, having them opened, changing their name, anything. What is done is defined by an (apple-) script attached to the folder, and a script is a series of commands to be executed.

http://www.google.com/search?q="what+is+applescript"

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[brutal]

Originally posted by Macpilot:
This is one aspect of Panther I don't understand either. Maybe it stems from the fact that I don't fully understand the whole AppleScript thing either?

I read that apple page, and still don't see the idea.

So I click on a folder let's say, in my home folder, like Documents, and I select configure folder actions, and this little window pops up, which I have no idea the purpose of. So I click on the Help in the menu bar for Folder Action Setup and I get a message saying "Help isn't available".

Hmmmmmm

Guess I was not meant for this stuff. It upsets me because so much of the rest of OS X is so intuitive and obvious to me.

If you'd actually checked the links posted here, you might have understood it..

http://www.apple.com/applescript/folderactions/02.html