Re: Panther bug: 'missing value' for modification date??
Re: Panther bug: 'missing value' for modification date??
- Subject: Re: Panther bug: 'missing value' for modification date??
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 09:31:39 -0800
On Feb 19, 2004, at 6:00 AM, Harald E Brandt wrote:
On Panther, as opposed to Jaguar, telling Finder to get the
modification date of a file on a mounted volume (belonging to another
computer) yields 'missing value' on first invocation, but gets the
date later on second invocation!? Why on earth is this so, and is
there any usable (fast) workaround?
Has this been reported? (I did not find any earlier report on this.)
This is a known bug in the Finder. The problem is that the underlying
file-information calls the Finder is using are completely asynchronous
in Panther, but the scripting doesn't account for that -- if the
information isn't available *right now*, it won't wait for it, but just
returns "missing value". There's no real workaround aside from trying
until you get a real answer.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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