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Re: Renaming files in Finder: why so slow?
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Re: Renaming files in Finder: why so slow?


  • Subject: Re: Renaming files in Finder: why so slow?
  • From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 22:27:58 +0200

At 1:08 PM -0400 9/4/03, Marc K. Myers wrote:
>I don't know what the difference is, but this script renamed 220 files in 13.2 seconds. It was run on a 446 MHz G4 machine under OS 10.2.6. Without the "as alias list" it ran in 24.8 seconds.
>
>set theFldr to choose folder
>tell application "Finder"
> set theFiles to (files of theFldr) as alias list

That does not list the contents of the nested folders, does it?

Also, I think that Paul reminds us sometimes that this fails if the folder contains only one file.

Emmanuel
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