Quick access to Favorites and OS 9 apps

Dec 04, '01 11:07:15AM

Contributed by: Pat_Gilmour

Two tips to speed up navigation in OS X:

  1. This tip allows quick and tidy access to files using the AppleScript menubar. It avoids having to go through the Finder to open your Favorites folder and once the item is opened, there is no Finder window left open.

    Simply open the script in Script editor and change the path to that of your Favorites folder (ie "Macintosh HD:Users:your user name:Documents:Library:Favorites"). Save the script into your AppleScript menubar scripts folder (yourdisk:Users:YourName:Library:Scripts) and you now have quick and tidy access to the files in your favorites folder. I also use this script a lot for FTP bookmarks. Just change the referenced folder in the script.

  2. On my PowerBook G3 400Mhz, it takes up to five seconds for the icons to appear in a long pop-up list. This can be annoying if you are used to using the Apple Menu a lot for launching apps. Even with Classic Menu, it seems to take forever. The solution: I created a folder of aliases to my OS 9 Apps folder in the Library:Scripts folder of my user's folder. Now the list of apps pops up really quickly when I select it in the AppleScript menu (this only works if there are no folders in the aliases folder).
Screenshots and downloads for both tips are available here: http://www.metaclarity.com/applescript/quickaccess.html

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