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: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 09:16:34 -0800
When you call for the physical size it starts to calculate it, unless
it is already calculated. If it doesn't have the value yet it will
give you "missing value." The following script worked for me.
set theDir to "Macintosh HD:Users:happyloman"
tell application "Finder"
set theSize to missing value
repeat until not ((theSize = missing value) or (theSize = 0.0))
set theSize to physical size of folder theDir
end repeat
end tell
log (theSize) --> "missing value"
-Graham
On Tuesday, April 1, 2003, at 06:06 PM, Jeffrey Mattox wrote:
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But the default timeout is 120 seconds. I get the error within one or
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two seconds. I've tried an explicit "with timeout of 120 seconds",
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with no effect.
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At 5:02 PM -0800 4/1/03, Graham Carter wrote:
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> I would think this is because it takes a certain amount of time to
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> calculate the size. If you try this on small directories you should
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> get the right answer every time. If you tell your script to wait for
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> a second or two (or more if you are calculating a very large
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> directory) it should work every time.
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>
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> -Graham
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> On Monday, March 31, 2003, at 07:39 PM, Jeffrey Mattox wrote:
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>> I do this:
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>>
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>> set theDir to "Macintosh HD:Users:jeff"
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>> tell application "Finder"
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>> set theSize to physical size of folder theDir
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>> end tell
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>> log (theSize) --> "missing value"
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>>
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>> Sometimes the tell block works (returns a value in theSize),
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>> sometimes it doesn't (returns "missing value" almost immediately).
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>> In both cases, theDir is correctly pointing to my home directory.
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>> There is no error (try block). Why would the Finder occasionally
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>> refuse to return the size?
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>>
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>> (I'm using AppleScript Studio, OS 10.2.3. I've also seen this
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>> happen in Script Debugger.)
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>>
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>> Jeff
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