Re: Finder Duplicate Operation timing out
Re: Finder Duplicate Operation timing out
- Subject: Re: Finder Duplicate Operation timing out
- From: Jon Pugh <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 23:02:51 -0800
At 10:50 PM +0100 1/30/02, Kai Edwards wrote:
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To change the timeout period to, say, 5 minutes, try this:
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with timeout of (5 * minutes) seconds
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duplicate folder theFolder to folder "Macintosh HD:Backup:"
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end timeout
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Simply change the value 5 to the number of minutes you think the Finder will
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need to comfortably accomplish the task in hand.
I've found that you generally have only two states you want, the default "Stop if it's taking too long" and the "Take as much time as it needs." Guessing a time will invariably have you increasing it every time you find a folder that takes longer.
So I always go long:
with timeout of 1000000 seconds -- 11.5 days
-- take your time
end
Now I'll never need to increase it.
Jon