This seems like a case where it might be good to know why you need to prevent a file from being trashed. There is probably a better way to accomplish what you need.

_murat

On Mar 19, 2010, at 11:36 AM, Charles Srstka wrote:

On Mar 19, 2010, at 11:04 AM, Jens Alfke wrote:

On Mar 19, 2010, at 5:17 AM, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote:

How long do you need to prevent its removal?  Just holding the file
open should prevent it from being deleted.

Yes, but not from being moved to the trash, which was the OP’s request. Actually I’m not sure the immutable bit prevents moving the file, either.

It doesn’t. All it does is cause an annoying dialog box to pop up the next time the user tries to empty the Trash.

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