Re: Archiving large folders to CD solved again
Re: Archiving large folders to CD solved again
- Subject: Re: Archiving large folders to CD solved again
- From: Zarquon <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 15:35:24 -0600
On Wednesday, January 23, 2002, at 06:12 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
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On 1/15/02 11:02 PM Zarquon wrote:
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> Alright, this is such an elementary problem that I cannot believe
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> that I
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> haven't found an answer to it yet, but here goes:
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> I have several large folders (multiple gigabytes) that I wish to
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> archive to
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> CD. I have Toast. Will someone please tell me how to move all this
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> stuff to
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> CD without having to manually go in and split these folders up into
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> 650MB
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> segments? Ideally, it would go into "Toaster mode" and spit out CDs
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> and ask
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> for new ones as it goes along, but I'll accept something that will just
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> auto-segment my folders (without having to Stuff them first; I'm aware
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> of
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> that option).
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<SNIP>
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> This seems like a problem that lends itself quite well to
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> AppleScript, but apparently no one has ever solved this problem on the
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> Mac by any means. Am I the only one who has ever wanted to do this?
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I solved this for someone on this list a few weeks ago. The script is
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here:
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http://www.cypresslakestudios.com/applescript/index.html#fillFolders
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and does this:
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"This script takes one big folder and recursively fills folders up to
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the
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established 650MB limit. It will check all current folders and will put
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files larger than 650 MB into a "too big" folder. It generates folders
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named
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"disk 1", "disk 2", "disk 3.""
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This doesn't seem to work. It does indeed move things around, but it
takes 1.2 GB of files and moves them into 7 folders. 6 of them already
existed. The 7th, "disk 6", is empty. Hmmm.
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