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Re: Determing the Size of a File
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Re: Determing the Size of a File


  • Subject: Re: Determing the Size of a File
  • From: "email@hidden" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 15:25:25 -0500

on 5/3/2001 2:06 PM, Michelle Steiner at email@hidden wrote:

>> When you advise people to use "info for" to obtain the size of folders, it
>> might be good to note that "info for" was broken for quite a long time (and
>> may still be broken) in that it fails if you try to use it on a folder
>> larger than 2 GB.
>
> Hmmm, I didn't know that. I do know that it's slow on large folders.
>
> What alternatives do you suggest?

Recently, I've used scripting additions like Akua Sweets to calculate folder
sizes.

JR


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