Is it possible to use the alert Finder provides when moving a file to a directory where a file with that name exists in my own app?

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I'm building a mac-app for people to organise files. One of the things I allow people to do is to move or copy files to specific directories from within my app. I use FileManagers 'moveItem(at:to:)' or 'copyItem(atPath:toPath:)' to do so, which also allows me to catch errors. Based on these errors, I can of course create custom alerts for specific edge cases.

However, since Finder already provides alerts for such occasions, I was wondering if I could prompt Finders default alerts instead of having to re-create them.

I'm especially interested in the alert shown when multiple files already exist at the location the user tries to move/copy files to and Finder allows to 'Keep both', 'Stop' or 'Replace' these files. Because this alert also includes a 'Apply to all'-checkbox unusual place for a custom NSAlert.

Thanks!

I ended up making a custom alert in such a way that I can use it whenever I need to prompt a modal/sheet to inform the user or ask for specific details. I am planning on publishing this in a separate project in the near future — frankster5000, Feb 07 '19 at 09:03

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 14 '19 at 13:18

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You can use apple script to move file.

tell application "Finder"
    move POSIX file "/Users/xyz/fileName" to POSIX file "/Users/xyz/test"
end tell

This will display finder alert.

answered Mar 14 '19 at 13:18

Parag Bafna

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Does this allow me to also process the user input? – frankster5000 Mar 15 '19 at 09:10
You can take use input using apple script. – Parag Bafna Mar 19 '19 at 06:31

Is it possible to use the alert Finder provides when moving a file to a directory where a file with that name exists in my own app?

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