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help a newbie with this script?
Authored by: rykey on Nov 08, '05 05:34:38AM

hi all,
first of all, thanks for the amazing curiosity and innovative solutions i've seen here--viva la open source! without people like you, we mac-dummies would be at the mercy of our factory settings.

i'm a newbie to stuff like scripts (to be honest, i'm far more interested in USING scripts than WRITING them), so forgive the ignorance... but how do i employ these scripts? i run OSX tiger, and i've gotten as far as pasting them into my script editor. do i save them as scripts? as script bundles? as applications? or what?

from here i gather that the "readable" scripts are put into folders where the system looks for its "cues" for a given application. so where would i want to put the hide/show hidden files script? and how will i know it's running (i'm guessing the appropriate dialog box will pop up when it's time to set the script on or off)?

thanks in advance for the patience and help.



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