Re: number of items in a folder?
Re: number of items in a folder?
- Subject: Re: number of items in a folder?
- From: JollyRoger <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 11:33:55 -0600
on 2/22/2001 5:33 AM, Pitcher, George at email@hidden wrote:
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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?
Hi George,
AFAIK, file system limits were increased drastically around Mac OS 8.5-8.6 -
you should have nothing to worry about on the file system side.
On the AppleScript side, however, there may be other things to worry about.
One off the top of my head: The "info for" command was broken all the way up
to Mac OS 9.x (was it 9.1, or 9.0? - can't remember). If you tried to use
"info for" on a folder that contained more than 2 gigabytes, you'd generate
an error. Fortunately, the most common things for which people use "info
for" (like getting the folder's name) can be done using other methods. And
for everything else, there's Akua Sweets, or some other scripting addition.
;-)
Anything else come to mind for anyone else?
JR