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Re: Panther bug: 'missing value' for modification date??
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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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