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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: "Marc K. Myers" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 16:23:56 -0500

Kai -

OMM both System Events and Finder appear to return reals for capacity and free space of disks. Or am I missing something? I'm running OS X 10.2.8 on a 466MHz G4 box with AppleScript 1.9.

tell application "Finder"
set {x, y} to {capacity of disk "New Guy", free space of disk "New Guy"}
log {x, x / (2 ^ 30), class of x, y, y / (2 ^ 30), class of y}
end tell
--(*4.00226304E+10, 37.273979187012, real, 2.9217615872E+10, 27.211025238037,
tell application "System Events"
set {x, y} to {capacity of disk "New Guy", free space of disk "New Guy"}
log {x, x / (2 ^ 30), class of x, y, y / (2 ^ 30), class of y}
end tell
--(*1.367924736E+9, 1.273979187012, real, 3.44700928E+9, 3.210277557373, real*)

Marc [11/18/03 4:22:40 PM]

Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 02:26:50 +0000
Subject: Re: Inconsistent results from Finder and System Events
From: kai <email@hidden>
To: <email@hidden>

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? ;-)
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