Re: File manipulating with FMPro fields
Re: File manipulating with FMPro fields
- Subject: Re: File manipulating with FMPro fields
- From: cheshirekat <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 10:05:18 -0600
On 04-04-2001 0948, Ray Newton may have typed or relayed in full or in
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Maybe you could use appleScript directly, and avoid the complications of
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other applications.
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set folderPath to "Utopia1:MTS:"
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tell application "Finder"
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set foundFileList to every item of the entire contents of folder
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folderPath whose name is searchFileName
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end tell
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>From there you can walk through the foundFileList and check for duplicate
file
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and folder names, check file types, mod dates, etc.
I thought about using the Finder, but I'm worried about that entire
contents bug on a large hard drive. I think Tanaka's osax should be
helpful to avoid that as I've been using it in the past for similar
tasks. I don't know if speed will be an issue using a third party osax
from within Filemaker. I'll try out my different options this weekend to
see what will work best.
kat