Re: Occasional missing value from Finder command
Re: Occasional missing value from Finder command
- Subject: Re: Occasional missing value from Finder command
- From: Graham Carter <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 17:02:39 -0800
I would think this is because it takes a certain amount of time to
calculate the size. If you try this on small directories you should
get the right answer every time. If you tell your script to wait for a
second or two (or more if you are calculating a very large directory)
it should work every time.
-Graham
On Monday, March 31, 2003, at 07:39 PM, Jeffrey Mattox wrote:
I do this:
set theDir to "Macintosh HD:Users:jeff"
tell application "Finder"
set theSize to physical size of folder theDir
end tell
log (theSize) --> "missing value"
Sometimes the tell block works (returns a value in theSize), sometimes
it doesn't (returns "missing value" almost immediately). In both
cases, theDir is correctly pointing to my home directory. There is no
error (try block). Why would the Finder occasionally refuse to return
the size?
(I'm using AppleScript Studio, OS 10.2.3. I've also seen this happen
in Script Debugger.)
Jeff
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