Re: Best way to tell if a file copy has finished.
Re: Best way to tell if a file copy has finished.
- Subject: Re: Best way to tell if a file copy has finished.
- From: Jeff Porten <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:49:43 -0400
On Aug 2, 2005, at 7:58 AM, email@hidden wrote:
I have a script that must process files that appear in a folder,
they are copied there from another mac across the network. I've
seen a couple of methods for this in scripts I've found on the web.
I did have one method that seemed to work well under Panther but it
doesn't work under Tiger....
Under Tiger I have found that the file size remains at zero until
the file has finished copying, so my script now loops while the
file size is zero.
If I'm understanding the question right, you want your script to wait
until a copy has completed before going on to something else. That's
the default, so just use a Finder copy and tell AppleScript to wait
patiently for it to finish.
tell application "Finder"
(* some script steps *)
with timeout of 86400 seconds -- hasta mañana
duplicate srcFile to destFolder
end timeout
(* more script steps *)
end tell
With the huge timeout, AppleScript won't proceed until Finder signals
that the copy is completed. Now, if your network connection is buggy
and the copy fails entirely, this script isn't going to figure that
out until tomorrow. Solving that is another problem....
Best,
Jeff
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