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Friday, January 29, 2010

Updated script makes creating text files from Mac's Finder even easier

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New Text File Here Pt 2About a week ago I posted about an AppleScript that you can use to create a new text file in the Finder folder that you are looking at. I was a little bit surprised by the reaction; some people thought it was a great idea, while others thought it ridiculous and couldn't imagine why anyone would ever want to do that.

Well, if you fall into the latter camp, you might as well skip the rest of this post.

But for those of you that, like me, find it useful to be able to create a new text file right in the finder, you're in luck. Jonas Wisser, the man behind the original script has created a new version of it with some added ease of use.

Jonas' new script will now ask you for a file name for the new text file (you don't need to add .txt, it will do that automatically), then automatically open the new file in your text editor of choice. Slick.

If, like me, you're using the Alpha version of the new Finder add-on Total Finder that Jay posted about, you'll want to note that there seems to be a conflict between Total Finder's Visor function and the new New Text File Here script that causes all new scripts to be created on the desktop instead of in the folder being viewed. Jonas is aware of the issue, and has promised to look into it, though it may or may not be something that can be solved in AppleScript. The workaround is to turn the Visor feature of Total Finder off, or uninstall Total Finder.

[via MacStories]

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