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Empty the trash from any application via AppleScript
Authored by: Mac Berry on Sep 27, '09 10:10:19PM

Not being funny here, but is posting very straightforward scripts to do specific things really the purpose of Mac OS X Hints? I mean, if every action that someone writes a script to perform becomes a hint, doesn't that dilute the real undocumented stuff?

I'm not suggesting that a listing of useful scripts, for those who can't/don't want to write their own isn't handy, just that I personally don't see the main Mac OS X Hints list as the right place for it unless the script really does display a bit of lateral thinking (Empty Trash doesn't!).

This hint might be better titled "run scripts from any application using keyboard shortcuts", and be a heads up to get Spark, as that's the more useful part of it I'd have thought. There could be another hint titled "do things the OS doesn't do out of the box", with the text "write a script"!



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Empty the trash from any application via AppleScript
Authored by: Anonymous on Sep 28, '09 12:27:44PM

Agreed. It does dilute. Hints need reorganizing by category.



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