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I want to refresh icon for particular file/folder in Finder application. FNNotifyByPath( (const UInt8 *)folderPath, kFNDirectoryModifiedMessage, kNilOptions ); FNNotifyByPath is not working for this. Now i am trying with appleScript +(void) refreshIconForItem : (NSString *)itemPath { NSString *source=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"tell application \"Finder\" to update \"%@\"",[NSString stringWithUTF8String:itemPath]]; NSAppleScript *update=[[NSAppleScript alloc] initWithSource:source]; NSDictionary *err; [update executeAndReturnError:&err]; } but this function is also not working. Can anyone

When we open Dropbox folder, we can see icon on the left bottom of the folder. I am developing an application in which i also want the same behavior. If folder is syncing then it will show sync icon and for other operation it will show other icon. The marked files/folder when viewed in Finder must be shown with a custom icon. But when they are selected for preview ( using spacebar) they must show their original icon ( i.e the blue icon for folder etc) . Can anyone please help me out ?? Thanks :) Starting with Yosemite (10.10), there is now an officially supported (and thus Mac App Store

I need to get the URLs of all files dragged/dropped into my application from Finder. I have a Cocoa app running on 10.6 which does this by using the new 10.6 NSPasteboard APIs which handle multiple items on the pasteboard. I'm trying to backport this app to 10.5. How do I handle this on 10.5? If I do something like below, I only get the first URL: NSArray *pasteTypes = [NSArray arrayWithObjects: NSURLPboardType, nil]; NSString *bestType = [pboard availableTypeFromArray:pasteTypes]; if (bestType != nil) { NSURL *url = [NSURL URLFromPasteboard:pboard]; } The IKImageKit programming topics outline

I'm on Yosemite, and I want to toggle hide/show all the hidden files on a Mac. Every-time, I want to do that I have to go to Terminal.app and run these command : To show defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE To hide defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE I'm wondering if there is a better tweak out there that accomplish this in just a click of a button. I prefer using this shortcut: ⌘ CMD + ⇧ SHIFT + . Update, considering all comments: try set state to (do shell script "defaults read com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles") as boolean on error set state to false

I'm trying to delete a file on my computer via AppleScript. When I apply the code below, it seems to delete the file from desktop. I'd like to delete the file in the "/Users/andrew/Documents". This is the code below which deletes the file from the desktop: tell application "Finder" if exists file "new.mp3" then delete file "new.mp3" end if end tell This is what tried and it doesn't work: tell application "Finder" if exists file "/Users/andrew/Documents/new.mp3" then delete file "/Users/andrew/Documents/new.mp3" end if end tell If anyone could any advice it would be much appreciated!! Add POSIX