Re: number of items in a folder?
Re: number of items in a folder?
- Subject: Re: number of items in a folder?
- From: Pier Kuipers <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 12:40:21 +0000
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We have applescript moving files around depending on what Filemaker decides.
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At present everything goes into one folder. We currently have 1500 pdfs
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there. I am curious as to what may limit us first: no of items or partition
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size (they're image pdfs).
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We expect this content to double in quantity in the next year.
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Should we be thinking of streaming into sub-folders?
If you're worried about the number of files in one folder, you might
clean it up by using subfolders with the letters of the alphabet.
Here a script snippet I used for that purpose at one stage:
property theAlphabet : {"A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F", "G", "H", "I",
"J", "K", "L", "M", "N", "O", "P", "Q", "R", "S", "T", "U", "V", "W",
"X", "Y", "Z"}
tell application "Finder"
set theFolder to choose folder with prompt "Select a Folder:"
open folder theFolder
set x to 1
repeat with i from 1 to 26
set theLetter to ((item x of theAlphabet) as text)
set theList to (every item of front window whose name
begins with theLetter)
if theList is not {} then
make new folder at front window with
properties {name:theLetter}
select theList
try
move selection to folder theLetter of
front window
end try
end if
set x to (x + 1)
end repeat
end tell
Cheers,
Pier.
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