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Authored by: NameUndecided on Mar 29, '10 08:29:43PM

Hi all --
I am going to come out and say that apple script baffles me at the moment. I found this thread through a Google search in trying to find out if I could open Mac folders in the DVD player. It turns out that I can (yay!) -- but I have no experience with apple script beyond my trying to do this one thing off and on over the past couple of days.
I have searched for apple script tutorials, and I am able to enable the pre-written scripts such as "add - new item alert" and the "close" and "convert" scripts and that -- but much of anything else seems to be some degrees off from my current level of understanding.
I have tried copying and pasting and tweaking the above given scripts -- but my folder action enabled folders with VIDEO_TS folders within them still open up as normal.
Would someone possibly be able to write a short step by step tutorial for how to enable these scripts for someone with my... erm, level of understanding, and who seemingly doesn't have the need for apple scripts beyond this one thing?
Thank you so much if anyone is able to help. Please forgive my ignorance -- I'd just really like to have this feature for a growing list of folders I'm storing. Dragging and dropping to the DVD Player icon is... boring and cumbersome.
Thanks.



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Very close... (but needed some work)
Authored by: NameUndecided on Mar 30, '10 07:18:36PM

...nevermind that previous comment. I just stumbled upon a different approach while using a new DVD ripping program.

Simply add the extension ".dvdmedia" to a folder that contains the VIDEO_TS file and then hide the extension and change the icon if you'd like. Suddenly it's a package that opens in DVD player. Why... on earth isn't everyone doing simply this?

...Because you're all psychopaths.



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