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Re: Inconsistent results from Finder and System Events
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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:

> I tried getting the capacity and free space of a volume using System
> Events. The results didn't seem to have anything to do with reality.
> Then I did the same thing with Finder and got the results I expected.
>
> What is System Events really reporting?
>
> tell application "Finder"
> log {(capacity of disk "New Guy") / (2 ^ 30), (free space of disk "New
> Guy") / (2 ^ 30)}
> end tell
> --(*37.273979187012, 27.372215270996*)
>
> tell application "System Events"
> log {(capacity of disk "New Guy") / (2 ^ 30), (free space of disk "New
> Guy") / (2 ^ 30)}
> end tell
> --(*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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