Re: Renaming files in Finder: why so slow?
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:
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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.
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set theFldr to choose folder
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tell application "Finder"
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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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