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Re: folder size


  • Subject: Re: folder size
  • From: John Cochrane <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 23:53:11 +1000

Thanks for the replies

On Thursday, October 2, 2003, at 10:33 PM, Rob Jorgensen wrote:

size of (info for aFolder)

This works well, although as you said it can take a while with large folders.
It should enable me to move a script between machines without an error on the first run.

On Thursday, October 2, 2003, at 10:42 PM, Emmanuel wrote:
Did you try:

tell application "Finder"
update aFolder
size of aFolder
end tell

Just tried it now and it has the same problems as my original script.
I find it interesting that after the first run it works fine even if Applescript is quit and restarted, yet it fails after a logout.
Why is the behavior different for files than folders?


On Thursday, October 2, 2003, at 09:49 PM, John Cochrane wrote:

Could someone please explain the following behavior to me.

The first time I run the script

tell application "Finder"
size of aFolder
end tell

It results in a missing value.
Subsequent runs give a correct numeric result unless I log out and run the script again.

The same does not apply for

tell application "Finder"
size of aFile
end tell

which gets it right from the start.

Is there a way to get the first script to return a number the first time. Enclosing it in a try block does not seem to help.

AS 2.0 on OS 10.2.8

Puzzled.

John Cochrane
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