Re: folder size
Re: folder size
- Subject: Re: folder size
- From: Rob Jorgensen <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 13:19:36 -0400
At 11:53 PM +1000 10/2/03, John Cochrane wrote:
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?
It doesn't take long to get the size of a single file since it is,
generally speaking, a static value. A folder might contain hundreds
or thousands of files and/or folders and the size is, generally
speaking, dynamic. This means that the folder size must be calculated
each time that it's asked for.
-- Rob
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