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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: Fri, 04 May 2001 07:29:54 -0500

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.

That's good to hear.

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.

JR


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