Choose file without invisibles Leopard

I'm having a problem with choose file without invisibles (Leopard).
The line
*choose file with prompt "Select a file" as string default location path to home folder without invisibles*
shows an open dialog with all invisible files (those whose names start with a .) are visible.
What's wrong?
Is it a bug in Leopard Applescript?
Something weird on my machine?
Or is this what is supposed to be? If yes, how do I get no invisibles?
Berend

It's the literal way AppleScript interprets your command "path to home folder without invisibles"
It assumes you're applying a parameter to "path to home folder", and if you use a parameter when one is not expected, it can be with or without anything.
*path to home folder without kangaroos*
Works and parses equally well, as does
*path to home folder with sausages*
But by including the braces you're isolating "path to home folder" and applying the "without invisibles" parameter to "choose folder".
Cheers,
H

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Hi everyone,
Usually I only ask for help when I can't find a solution for several days or weeks... And guess what? That just happen!
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That it's working fine, until the user forgets his password.
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So, explaining what it's here, I want to say that I managed how to do all of this so far. The point number 6 will help us to determine where the recover details are in the file, or if they actually exist because user can choose not to use them.
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if the user is inputing a correct password, and if so decrypt contents and extract them.
But, if the user insert a wrong password I need to re-add those bytes with the recover details again to the ZIP file.
The second thing is, if the user forgets his password and asks to recover it, a form will be shown asking to insert the recover detail (date of birth, email etc), so we need to reed the last 500 bytes of the ZIP, find the bytes in number 6 and remove the
bytes before number 6, remove bytes in number 6 and number 7, and we will have the recover details to match against the user details input.
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I am not sure if it's possible, but this what i am looking for:
Read last 500 bytes of a file, remove the bytes with recover details and save the file. Without reading the whole file, because if we have a 1GB file that will take a very long time. Also, i don't want to "waste" hard drive space creating a new
clone file with 1GB and then delete the original.
And then add them back "in case user fails the password" which should be exactly the same.
This sounds a bit confusing I know, even to me, I am writing and trying to explain this the better I can.. Also my English is not the best..
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txtTemp.Append(myByte.ToString("X2"))
Next
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'////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TO DEBUG
'MsgBox(string_after.ToString & "505245434F47414653")
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'\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ TO DEBUG
'Temp_2 = Temp_2.Replace(RecoveryDetailsPass_Holder.ToString, "")
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If the user needs to recover the password we have the details already in RecoveryDetailsPass_Holder variable and just need to match them against user input details.
If the user fails, we need to put the RecoveryDetailsPass_Holder back on the file.
Any question just ask, it's a bit trick to explain i think, but please ask.
Anyone know how to do this?
Many thanks in advanced.
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@ ALL
Thank you very much for you help. I know that if I'm "playing" with bytes you should assume that I know a lot of VB.net, but I don't know that much unfortunately. I am not a beginner but I am still very fresh and I probably do stuff that work but
probably not in the best way...
Anyway, I will explain the idea of this little software I'm making. Once I wanted to create a program to protect folders with password, and I came up with something to change folder permissions to lock access to them, and that actually worked fine and quickly.
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Answering to all of you now:
@Armi
"System.IO.FileStream.SetLength"
I know I tried that but I erased the code because it didn't work for some reason, I don't remember why sorry, was long time before I created this post.
The last code I was trying to use was this:
' Set the stream position to the desired location of the stream.
Dim fileStream As IO.FileStream = _
New IO.FileStream(TextBox_ZIP_to_Protect.Text & ".zip", IO.FileMode.Append)
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fileStream.Seek(210, IO.SeekOrigin.Current)
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That code, as I understand, is to search for the OFFSET of the bytes in the file and start to write from there... That OFFSET should be the beginning of the 500 bytes read on the code before. I got the OFFSET position "210" reading the file with
the HEX editor "HxD - Hexeditor v1.7.7.0" but using the OFFSET won't work because every file, password, recover details and so on, are different and so the file size, changing the OFFSET I
think.
@Reed Kimble
Does that sound like something which might work for you?
Thanks for your help. That might be some solution, however it seams a bit of the same problem where we need to read the bytes again to get the recover details. But, as I said in this post, because this is meant to password protect folders, do you think that
will apply as well?
@Crazypennie
Thanks for your reply.
All this appears really weak. The user has your application since he need it to open the file .... and the code in the application contain the code to read the file without knowing the password. Therefore anyone can read your code and retrieve the
data without the password ... if he knows VB.
The application can only open the file if the user didn't use a password to protect the file. Because the file is encrypted and needs to be unencrypted first.
When the application tries to open/read the file, will need to decrypt it first and then check for a password and do the validation. Also the application is with the code masked/protected which i think it might not be easy for reverse engineering.
- You need to use a web server and a symmetric key encryption
This a good idea, besides I don't know how to implement it. However the idea is to be able to:
1 - Protect a folder anywhere in any Windows computer (portable app)
2 - Recover password details (security question) in any computer, online and offline
And I think we need a computer always connected to the Internet to use that method, right?
@ Mr. Monkeyboy
Thank you very much for your effort.
I just wanted to let you know that the zip method you are using is no longer supported.
I didn't actually knew that. Thanks for letting me know.
Do you require the compressed encrypted files to actually be Zip files or could they just be compressed files that have nothing to do with Zip?
No, it doesn't need to be a .zip extension. I am actually using my own extension. It starts as a Zip but then I changed to my own extension which I have registered on the Windows Registry.
@ ALL
Thanks again to all for trying and spending time helping me.
By the way, I might not be able to answer or try any code during the weekend... It's easter break and family is around. Have a nice easter everyone. :)
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end try
try
set Credit to value of IPTC tag "Credit"
set xmpcontentparttwo to xmpcontentparttwo & tab & "<photoshop:Credit>" & Credit & "</photoshop:Credit>" & return
end try
try
set DateCreated to value of IPTC tag "DateCreated"
set xmpcontentparttwo to xmpcontentparttwo & tab & "<photoshop:DateCreated>" & DateCreated & "</photoshop:DateCreated>" & return
end try
try
set Headline to value of IPTC tag "Headline"
set xmpcontentparttwo to xmpcontentparttwo & tab & "<photoshop:Headline>" & Headline & "</photoshop:Headline>" & return
end try
try
set State to value of IPTC tag "Province/State"
set xmpcontentparttwo to xmpcontentparttwo & tab & "<photoshop:State>" & State & "</photoshop:State>" & return
end try
try
set Source to value of IPTC tag "Source"
set xmpcontentparttwo to xmpcontentparttwo & tab & "<photoshop:Source>" & Source & "</photoshop:Source>" & return
end try
try
set Instructions to value of IPTC tag "SpecialInstructions"
set xmpcontentparttwo to xmpcontentparttwo & tab & "<photoshop:Instructions>" & Instructions & "</photoshop:Instructions>" & return
end try
try
set SupplementalCategory to value of IPTC tag "SupplementalCategory"
set xmpcontentparttwo to xmpcontentparttwo & tab & "<photoshop:SupplementalCategory>" & SupplementalCategory & "</photoshop:SupplementalCategory>" & return
end try
try
set CaptionWriter to value of IPTC tag "Writer/Editor"
set xmpcontentparttwo to xmpcontentparttwo & tab & "<photoshop:CaptionWriter>" & CaptionWriter & "</photoshop:CaptionWriter>" & return
end try
set xmpcontentparttwo to xmpcontentparttwo & ("</rdf:Description>") & return
else
set xmpcontentparttwo to ""
end if
--xmp content, part 3
--check for existence of iptc tags, create content or empty string depending on existance of tags
if (exists IPTC tag "Byline") or (exists IPTC tag "Caption/Abstract") or (exists IPTC tag "CopyrightNotice") or (exists IPTC tag "Keywords") or (exists IPTC tag "ObjectName") then
set xmpcontentpartthree to ("<rdf:Description rdf:about='' xmlns:dc='http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/'>") & return
try
set creator to value of IPTC tag "Byline"
set xmpcontentpartthree to xmpcontentpartthree & tab & "<dc:creator><rdf:Seq><rdf:li>" & creator & "</rdf:li></rdf:Seq></dc:creator>" & return
end try
try
set description to value of IPTC tag "Caption/Abstract"
set xmpcontentpartthree to xmpcontentpartthree & tab & "<dc:description><rdf:Alt><rdf:li xml:lang='x-default'>" & description & "</rdf:li></rdf:Alt></dc:description>" & return
end try
try
set rights to value of IPTC tag "CopyrightNotice"
set xmpcontentpartthree to xmpcontentpartthree & tab & "<dc:rights><rdf:Alt><rdf:li xml:lang='x-default'>" & rights & "</rdf:li></rdf:Alt></dc:rights>" & return
end try
--keywords, slightly different, as they need to be written as a list and not as a string
--i don't think it's a problem if we create an empty list if there are no keywords present.
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try
repeat with n from 1 to count of keywords
set cursubject to name of (keyword n)
set xmpcontentpartthree to xmpcontentpartthree & tab & tab & "<rdf:li>" & cursubject & "</rdf:li>" & return
end repeat
end try
set xmpcontentpartthree to xmpcontentpartthree & tab & "</rdf:Bag></dc:subject>" & return
try
set title to value of IPTC tag "ObjectName"
set xmpcontentpartthree to xmpcontentpartthree & tab & "<dc:title><rdf:Alt><rdf:li xml:lang='x-default'>" & title & "</rdf:li></rdf:Alt></dc:title>" & return
end try
set xmpcontentpartthree to xmpcontentpartthree & ("</rdf:Description>") & return
else
set xmpcontentpartthree to ""
end if
--part four. aperture doesn't seem to export anything there
set xmpcontentpartfour to "<rdf:Description rdf:about='' xmlns:photomechanic='http://ns.camerabits.com/photomechanic/1.0/'>
</rdf:Description>" & return
--part five. rating
set xmpcontentpartfive to "<rdf:Description rdf:about='' xmlns:xap='http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/'>" & return
try
set Rating to main rating
set xmpcontentpartfive to xmpcontentpartfive & tab & "<xap:Rating>" & Rating & "</xap:Rating>" & return
end try
set xmpcontentpartfive to xmpcontentpartfive & "</rdf:Description>" & return
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my writexmpFile(xmptext, xmpPath)
end if
end tell
end repeat
display dialog "Processed " & mastercount & " referenced and online image(s)." buttons {"OK"} default button 1
end tell
end run
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on writexmpFile(theContents, xmpFileName)
--tell application "Finder"
try
open for access xmpFileName with write permission
set eof of xmpFileName to 0
write (theContents) to xmpFileName starting at eof
close access xmpFileName
on error
try
display dialog xmpFileName
close access xmpFileName
end try
end try
--end tell
end writexmpFile
--this part copied from Brett Gross-------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------
on getLibPath()
tell application "System Events" to set p_libPath to value of property list item "LibraryPath" of property list file ((path to preferences as Unicode text) & "com.apple.aperture.plist")
if ((offset of "~" in p_libPath) is not 0) then
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set p_script to "/bin/echo $HOME"
set p_homePath to (do shell script p_script)
set p_offset to offset of "~" in p_libPath
set p_path to text (p_offset + 1) thru -1 of p_libPath
set g_libPath to p_homePath & p_path
else
set g_libPath to p_libPath
end if
end getLibPath
--end brett gross part

imigra wrote:
I've written a script to write xmp sidecar files for referenced and online images (the 2 conditions in the script) of the selected images. I looked for a while at system events and other stuff to be able to write the xmp file, but i'm not a programmer, so in the end i chose the long and dirty way to do it.
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I don't know how to get at the adjustments for images, otherwise those could be included as well.
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If anyone has the energy to clean this up and make it faster, feel free to do so.
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Next, I'm going to try to write a script to do the opposite, import xmp sidecars for imported online and referenced files.
Don't rush unless you feel like it - I've already started planning out a free (as in beer and speech) XMP importer with a GUI so that you can choose how to map the XMP CORE tags that don't exist in Aperture. You've given me an extra idea, though - if we can decide on a set of custom tags, my importer could map the XMP CORE tags to them and your exporter could export those tags.
Thanks for the work!
Ian
P.S. I'll check through your script tomorrow, some of the database tables changed between 1.5.6 and 2.0, so you might need to add in a version check to be really thorough.

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