I did this in 10.5 and after upgrading to 10.6 i was getting sooooo frustrated with how to get this to work again. Every search i did seemed to offer a less than elegant situation on how to do this.
This script is to be attached to the download folder. It will allow you to keep the custom stack drawer icons in front of anything you add to the download folder.
1) Add the drawer icon to the downloads folder and name the icon "Download".
2) Create a temp folder somewhere or use one you already have.
3) Create a folder action script and attach it to the os x downloads folder. You will need to tailor it to accommodate the correct paths....
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items
do shell script "mv /Users/User Name Here/Downloads/Download /Users/User name here/Temp/Download
"
do shell script "mv /Users/User name here/Temp/Download/ Users/User name here/Downloads/Download
"
end adding folder items to
4) You might need to experiment a bit. For whatever reason i need to have the script attached to both the "Downloads" Folder and the "Download" stack drawer to get this to work. This logically doesn't make sense to so if anyone can offer some refinements let me know...
Thanks... Hopefully this answers a question some of you have been trying to figure out since 2006...
Fight On!
This script is to be attached to the download folder. It will allow you to keep the custom stack drawer icons in front of anything you add to the download folder.
1) Add the drawer icon to the downloads folder and name the icon "Download".
2) Create a temp folder somewhere or use one you already have.
3) Create a folder action script and attach it to the os x downloads folder. You will need to tailor it to accommodate the correct paths....
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items
do shell script "mv /Users/User Name Here/Downloads/Download /Users/User name here/Temp/Download
"
do shell script "mv /Users/User name here/Temp/Download/ Users/User name here/Downloads/Download
"
end adding folder items to
4) You might need to experiment a bit. For whatever reason i need to have the script attached to both the "Downloads" Folder and the "Download" stack drawer to get this to work. This logically doesn't make sense to so if anyone can offer some refinements let me know...
Thanks... Hopefully this answers a question some of you have been trying to figure out since 2006...
Fight On!