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An AppleScript to trash items on remote volumes
Authored by: PeteVerdon on May 31, '05 06:51:02PM

I don't think it's security concerns, but rather "protecting you from yourself" concerns. When you're deleting something on a remote volume there's no way to keep a copy in the trash (unless you downloaded it to the local machine, which would be very counterintuitive). Done through the user interface, a dialogue box warns you that the operation can't be undone, and you go on your merry way. Done programmatically, when it can't warn you, it seems it simply chooses not to.

Wrong choice in my opinion, since anyone writing scripts is probably bright enough to know what they're deleting.

Pete



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