Re: Busy Status
Re: Busy Status
- Subject: Re: Busy Status
- From: JJ <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2002 12:27:07 +0200
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At 3:22 PM +0100 11/1/02, christian vick wrote:
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>> I have a folder action that checks the busy status of files which are
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>> in the process of being downloaded but the busy status doesn't appear
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>> to be accurate. When checking the busy status of a file, with Finder
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>> or "info for", what criteria is used to determine if a file is or is
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>> not busy?
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> Yes, busy status doesn't work (AS 1.9). In case of a download you may it
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> workaround by comparing the file size every minute (or whatever the download
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> timeout is).
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Yeah, this is probably what I'll end up doing. I tried the handler
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offered by Brian Geiger (thanks!) but it didn't produce the correct
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result on a file that was being downloaded by Internet Explorer. What
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a pain in the hiney.
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Thanks to all who offered input and scripts. :-)
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Rob Jorgensen
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Ohio, USA
Hi, Rob, all.
Perhaps a try could be read/parse the "downloads" file. Actually, I don't
know where is it stored in os x, but at ancient times it was under os 9 at
(path to preferences folder) & "Explorer:Downloads.html".
I'm sure you know it: it's a html file containing:
<dt><a href="
http://file.sit"; referer="
http://x.com"; FolderID="30635"
volRef="-1" Size="1064531" Time="92" Status="-2">file.sit</a>
Being "Status" its actual status: "-2" equal to "finished".
I can't remember just now the codes, but anything such as 1=waiting,
0=downloading,-1=error and so on...
Or... a little tricky, but may work:
set file_to_check to (choose file)
tell application "Finder"
set x to icon of file_to_check
try
small one bit icon of x as text
on error e
set data_chunk to text from character 1 of e to character 35 of e
end try
-- when downloading an IE file, "Can't make +data ics#FF80D2FEA0E280"
-- this _start_ chunk is equal in every d/l IE icon
-- (testing here, OS 9.2.2, IE 5.1.6)
-- then, compare with the finished download (e.g. a "smi" file):
-- "Can't make +data ics#010002803FF028"
end tell
JJ
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