Re: Determing the Size of a File
Re: Determing the Size of a File
- Subject: Re: Determing the Size of a File
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 09:55:27 -0700
On Friday, May 4, 2001, at 05:29 AM, email@hidden wrote:
on 5/3/2001 6:11 PM, Christopher Nebel 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.
Oh ye of little faith! This particular bug was fixed in AppleScript
1.5.5.
What version of Mac OS does AppleScript 1.5.5 ship with by default? If
it
isn't until 9.x, then a large percentage of people won't be affected by
the
fix, and we should probably still warn of the danger when posting about
"info for" on this list.
AppleScript 1.5.5 came with Mac OS 9.1, and has been superseded by
AppleScript 1.6 (available via software update; it also comes with Mac
OS X 10.0.) So yes, anyone who isn't fully up-to-date will still see
the problem.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering