I call it as a reaction to a user selecting a file or a directory. I list its siblings.
The list may be very long. I for one always have many items in the trash. When I hit that I am in for 10-20 seconds of beachball.
You may see this method in action in the Apple provided sample code: SimpleBrowser. You will see that it is way slower to browse the file system than the Finder is.
Pierre
On Tuesday, April 11, 2006, at 02:49PM, j o a r <email@hidden> wrote:
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>On 11 apr 2006, at 10.01, Pierre Bernard wrote:
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>> How come -[NSFileManager
>> directoryContentsAtPath:matchingExtension:options:keepExtension:]
>> is so slooooow?
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>Is the method really slow, or are you just calling it a lot? Are you
>calling it for one directory, or several? How many files are you
>enumerating over?
>
>j o a r
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