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Finder service created using Automator

I have created a Finder service using Automator. Service does appear on finder contextual menu on right click of any Folder. I want the service should be active only for the specific folder and folders present inside it. i.e contextual menu should appear only right click of that folder and folders present inside it. Is there any way to ...

Programmatically add a folder to "Places" in Finder

Hello, I'm trying to figure out how to programatically add a folder to Finder's Places sidebar. I've seen ways to modify it through the Finder Preferences, but I've also seen some applications actually add folders to the sidebar. If someone has any advice/pointers on what I should look up, it would be greatly appreciated (This is fo...

How to implenent mongodb 'includes?' finder condition

I am using Mongoid and have a project and a user model. in the Project model, I have a field class Project include Mongoid::Document field :name field :user_ids, :type => Array end class User include Mongoid::Document field :email end I can find all the users belonging to one project, i.e., 'find this project's users' @p...

org.springframework.dao.InvalidDataAccessApiUsageException when using grails dynamic finder

Using Grails i'm trying a dynamic finder like this one Policy.findAllByResourceAndUser(resource,user) But When i call this, grails raise this exception Caused by: org.springframework.dao.InvalidDataAccessApiUsageException: object references an unsaved transient instance - save the transient instance before flushing: gmedia.User; nest...

Looking for Find in files that supports all formats (in c++ or java)

How does for example components like the "Total Commander " search can open every file format And search inside it ? Is there free library that offer me such feature ? Basically in the end I will like to extract texts from files be able to support all formats ( pdf,Microsoft doc ,chm …) ...

Xcode folder as bundle/package

Hey guys, I have made a file format which is just a folder with an extension. I have set up an app the makes finder use it as a package but when I drag it into the resources in xcode it expands that package into a folder. Is there a way I can get xcode to treat a folder like one file regardless of what is in it? The reason I need this i...

Find out the "Open With" menu items in Finder

How can I replicate the Finder's "Open With" menu for a given file type? ...

Declarative_Athorization: with_permissions_to for all models on single place

Hi All, Is there a way to have with_permissions_to in a single place globally so that it applies to EVERY finder method of all models. Actually, I have very big application and just added this plug-in for authorization. I don't want to use with_permissions_to with every find method for all models. Thanks, Imran ...

FLOSS that implements badging and contextual menu in Snow Leopard's Finder

Apparently with Snow Leopard, due to rewrite of Finder in Cocoa and removal of Contextual Menu Plugins, it is no longer trivial to do either badging nor contextual menus, however Dropbox seems to both add a contextual menu in the managed folder, and add status badges. Is there an open source project that managed to solve this problem? ...

How to disable "USB Over Current Notification" popups in the Finder in Mac OS X 10.6?

On an Intel iMac (Model MB324LL/A) (currently running 10.6.4), every few minutes (or seconds) I get a Finder popup window reading: Because a USB device was drawing too much power from your computer, one or more of your USB devices have been disabled. In Console, the associated message: USB Notificaton: The device "EHCI Root Hu...