OK, I get it now - sorry, bit slow today. I've installed your Test workflow, but it specifically asks the Finder for the selected items, and when you control-click an item. the Finder does not change the selection. (And hasn't done since 10.5.)
Because asking the Finder for "the selection" does not work reliably, FinderPop ends up having to do all sorts of horrible munging under the hood to find out what it really was you control-clicked. This works fine for me and presumably everyone else using FinderPop, so there's something different about your system..? Any ideas - anything unusual about your system? Any odd prefpanes installed?
If anyone reading this has similar problems with FP, could you please chime in and maybe we can find a common denominator here...
12 Jun 2012, 09:58
turly wrote:Was there anything interesting printed on the console during your failed installation attempts?
The installation problem was caused by an application called 'BetterZip': if one unpacks FP243.zip using BetterZip, a window opens displaying the contents of the package including the FinderPop.prefPane. Double-clicking on the FinderPop.prefPane in this window appears to install FP, but it doesn't work afterwards. Dragging the FinderPop.prefPane from the BetterZip window to the desktop and double-clicking it there works fine.
06 Jun 2012, 15:51
After installing FP243 FinderPop no longer works. If I remove it and reinstall the earlier version FP241 that version doesn't work any longer, either. Logging Out/In or restarting doesn't help. I am running OS 10.7.4, and FP241 used to work fine (until today).
24 hours later: After uninstalling and reinstalling FP241 and/or FP243 several times (with and without restarting), FP243 is working again -- for reasons unknown.
21 Jul 2011, 10:31
I am using the latest FP Betas with OSX Lion and find that Safari crashes whenever FP is active. Does anybody else have this problem?
-- ks
25 Apr 2010, 20:17
Checking or unchecking Folder Actions Setup... doesn't seem to affect anything.
Here is a curious fact:
If I select a folder in Column View and then control-click on it, the ...---f items in the FinderPop Items folder are invisible in the FinderPop menu.
However, if I switch to List View, select a folder, and control-click on it, the ...---f items in the FinderPop Items folder are visible in the FinderPop menu.
Weird.
04 Apr 2010, 13:51
Apart from the (older) Finder selection problem discussed under that topic, FP appears to work fine on SL 10.6.3.
28 Mar 2010, 12:19
turly wrote:Because asking the Finder for "the selection" does not work reliably, FinderPop ends up having to do all sorts of horrible munging under the hood to find out what it really was you control-clicked. This works fine for me and presumably everyone else using FinderPop, so there's something different about your system..? Any ideas - anything unusual about your system? Any odd prefpanes installed?
If anyone reading this has similar problems with FP, could you please chime in and maybe we can find a common denominator here...
Nothing exotic. Here are the prefPanes I have installed:
DictionaryCleaner1.5, DejaVu v.3.6, Flip4Mac WMV v.2.3.2.6, TeX Distribution; I have just removed Growl, but that hasn't made any difference
25 Mar 2010, 09:37
If you open 'Automator' you can create various things, including 'Services'. They end up in a folder called ~/Library/Services/
If you like you can create that folder directly and put in the attached workflow 'Test.workflow'. Check that it is ticked in System Preferences/Keyboard/Keyboard Shortcuts/Services/
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Re: Finder selection problem with FP225
by turly » 25 Mar 2010, 23:21
24 Mar 2010, 09:41
The problem seems to involve an undocumented feature (= bug) in OS 10.6. Automator behaves in exactly the same way (with FP switched off):
1. Define a workflow 'test' using a little applescript which returns the name of a selected object, and save that workflow as a Service.
2. Select any folder xxx in Finder.
3. Ctrl-click on any other file or folder yyy and invoke the workflow 'text' in 'Services' from the contextual menu.
The result is the address of xxx rather than that of yyy.
What appears to be peculiar to FP is that it does not recognize that there is a Finder selection if a folder xxx is selected in Finder and then ctrl-clicked.
pyffi24 Mar 2010, 07:51
No, the problem appears to be independent of the specific folder xxx selected initially.
23 Mar 2010, 21:55
Hi turly,
If I select a folder xxx in Finder and then ctrl-click on that folder, none of the FinderPop Items ending in ---f are visible in the FinderPop menu. If I ctrl-click on a different file or folder yyy (with folder xxx still selected in Finder), all FinderPop Items ending in ---f are visible in the menu, but refer to the finder selection xxx.
If the selected object xxx is a file (not a folder) everything works fine.
(FP build 22502 on a 27" iMac with OS 10.6.2; same problem on a MacBook Pro and on an older iMac).
pyffi