rsMagic Help File

rsMagic is a little freeware Finder enhancement written in AppleScript Studio. 
It requires Mac OS X 10.1.2 or later to work.

Installation:

Just copy the application from the disk image to your applications folder (or somewhere else). The "open with" pulldown menu will be empty until you create a folder "OpenWith" in your Library folder and place some aliases to applications in it.

Features:

- Pulldown menu "move to":  select a folder to move the Finder selection to.
The menu contains the folders /Applications, ~/Documents and ~/Library/Favorites and their subfolders (only one level deep).
Note:  If the Finder selection can not moved, it will be copied !!!
Caution: It is also possible to copy a whole disk. This can be quite usefull, if you mount a disk image, because the contents of the image will be placed in a new folder.
But you should not try this with your startup disk :-)

- Pulldown menu "open with":  select an application to open the Finder selection with.
The menu contains every alias to an application which is placed in the folder ~/Library/OpenWith  (If this folder does not exist, the menu is empty.)

- Pulldown menu "extra" contains the following items:

     # "add to iTunes library": adds every file of the Finder selection whose extension is  mp3, aiff or wav to the iTunes library. Other files are just ignored.
     # "mail attachments": opens a new mail window in Mail.app with the Finder selection as attachment. Very useful !
     # "open with app...":  You can select an application or an alias to an application in a standard open dialog. The finder selection will  then be opened in the chosen application.
     # "pick app to open...":  You can select an application from a list of all installed applications. The finder selection will  then be opened in the chosen application.

- Button with label "-"  (the right button on the bottom):
Hides the panel of rsMagic

- Buttons with labels "X" and "V":
A lame excuse for a cut-and-paste feature in the Finder. But better than nothing.
What actually happens is the following: If you click the X-Button, the application saves the Finder selection in a variable and enables the V-Button. So far nothing has happend to the selected files in the Finder.
If you now navigate to another location in the Finder and click the V-Button, the formerly selected files will be moved.
Note 1: If the formerly selected files can not be deleted at their old position, nothing happens. 
Note 2: You can not paste one file to more than one new location. The paste button will be disabled after each use. (Use the Finder's copy-and-paste instead !)

Known Bugs:

There is a bug in Mac OS X 10.1.x leading to a Finder crash after undoing any copy or move action which has been invoked by an AppleScript. Therefore you should not select "Undo" in the Finder menu after moving stuff around with rsMagic.

Disclaimer:

This is a work-in-progress freeware application. Do not hold me responsible for anything you do with this tool. 

Do not hesitate to send me any kind of feedback, feature requests, bug reports, post cards, money, ...

Rudi Schäfer  -  rudi_s Software

Email:  software@rudi-schaefer.com

Download-Site:  http://www.rudi-schaefer.com/software

PS:  The source-code will be available on the web later. If you want to have it now, just drop me an email.