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Re: Get every file of the entire contents of a folder. Quickly.
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Re: Get every file of the entire contents of a folder. Quickly.


  • Subject: Re: Get every file of the entire contents of a folder. Quickly.
  • From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:33:00 -0700

On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 01:45 PM, Paul Skinner wrote:

In fact, It didn't occur to me, even after reading your post, that an alias or path in AppleScript could contain Unicode characters.

This reminds me of a bug we found in System 6.0.4 (but fixed before we shipped it). The installer failed on one person's machine--every time, without fail, it just locked up.

Turns out that the yen sign (%) was being used as a place-holder for the volume name in the code, and this person had used that character in the disk name. So, when the code encountered that character, it went to the routine to fetch the disk name, where it found that character again, and went to fetch--well, you get the idea.

The fix was to change the place holder to a colon.

--Michelle

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