Re: Inconsistent results from Finder and System Events
Re: Inconsistent results from Finder and System Events
- Subject: Re: Inconsistent results from Finder and System Events
- From: kai <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 02:26:50 +0000
on Sun, 16 Nov 2003 15:50:40 -0500, "Marc K. Myers" wrote:
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I tried getting the capacity and free space of a volume using System
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Events. The results didn't seem to have anything to do with reality.
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Then I did the same thing with Finder and got the results I expected.
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What is System Events really reporting?
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tell application "Finder"
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log {(capacity of disk "New Guy") / (2 ^ 30), (free space of disk "New
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Guy") / (2 ^ 30)}
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end tell
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--(*37.273979187012, 27.372215270996*)
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tell application "System Events"
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log {(capacity of disk "New Guy") / (2 ^ 30), (free space of disk "New
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Guy") / (2 ^ 30)}
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end tell
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--(*1.273979187012, 3.372055053711*)
Looks like you haven't had a nibble on this one yet, Marc - so I'll try and
kick things off - by observing that the Finder returns the value of
'capacity' as a double integer, while System Events returns an unsigned
integer...
Now where are the mathematicians around here? ;-)
---
kai
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