12 Sep 2012, 23:53
I’ve delayed putting up this request because sometimes it works but mostly it doesn’t, so I thought it must be me but when I try to delete something using either the FP menu in a Finder window or in the menubar by ‘going’ to the item and clicking the delete key, the ‘puff’ appears and a dialog box comes up asking if I want to move to the trash. I click yes, but mostly when I check the item hasn’t been deleted. Except that now and then it has been deleted, hence me not asking about the whole issue. Can someone help?
When ‘putting away’ a disk by clicking delete, it does seem to work OK.
Using Lion 10.7.4 and FP 2.4.4, Intel iMac.
13 Sep 2012, 20:44
Anything printed on the console? That code hasn't changed in donkey's years...
13 Sep 2012, 21:56
Turly,
I just tried it again and the item wasn’t deleted. The console message was ‘14/09/12 6:15:17.589 AM [0x0-0x15015].com.finderpop.fp-injector: FP: Error -43 during move to trash’.
I just realized that deleting does work if I am deleting something from within the hard drive that FP is installed on. But it doesn’t work if I am trying to delete from another hard drive or a flash drive. Is it so that you cannot use this deleting method from attached USB drives?. You can move and copy to them, but not delete from?
14 Sep 2012, 14:20
Error -43 is "File Not Found" so something is amiss. I'll have a look this weekend.
I must confess I've only tested it recently using items on the boot disk... I've probably screwed something up. Again
14 Sep 2012, 21:41
Turly
Today it is working!
Could it have something to do with working in column view, like that obscure problem ages ago?
17 Sep 2012, 00:25
Turly,
Another idea. I finally googled ‘Column View problems Lion’ to see what would come up and found out that there is a problem in Lion (see http://www.macyourself.com/2012/05/27/h ... os-x-lion/). Since I just discovered this, could the ‘file not found’ issue be related to a ‘wrong’ listing in column view?
17 Sep 2012, 08:21
Can you give me the exact steps you took to reproduce the problem (including Sort-By settings)?
I tried it yesterday and saw nothing amiss so obviously I'm not doing something.
I'll play with it some more tonight, this time altering the sort-by in column view.
17 Sep 2012, 22:02
Turly,
One of the problems was that it worked sometimes, so you might not be able to reproduce it!
However, if you set the Finder to ‘Column view’ and arrange it by ‘Kind’and sort by ‘Name’, you will have the setup that I was mostly operating in.
Now I am trying it by arranging by ‘None’ and sorting by ‘Name’ as per the website above, and I’m seeing how that works. So far, no problems! With deleting via FP menus.
18 Sep 2012, 11:09
Yeah, I put in some more debug so I could see exactly what it was trying to delete, but so far everything has worked as expected on both internal and external disks.
If you can find a way to reproduce this, post it! As it stands I can't see anything wrong with the code...