Re: File Management/Sherlock
Re: File Management/Sherlock
- Subject: Re: File Management/Sherlock
- From: "Roger Howard" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 10:53:22 -0700
Don,
Use the FindFile OSAX (if you want status and results displays) or Akua Sweets (if you just want raw speed) to find files under a given directory (and to a specified depth) based on a wide variety of criteria.
These will both give you results in the most usable forms - lists of file names, lists of aliases, or lists of file specs.
Forget about Sherlock - it's ok for basic find functionality and Web searching, especially if you want to present the results in a nice interface for your users, but for complex queries it's quite a pain, and none too fast.
Hope this helps.
Roger Howard
Digital Media Specialist
Museum Information Systems
The J. Paul Getty Trust
email@hidden
310.440.6908
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I have have successfully used Sherlock to find the modified files, but only
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by pre-defining a search set and saving it as a file. I don't want to have
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to create 365 search sets each year, even if it would not be a maintenance
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nightmare.