Re: Select Finder items by Regular Expression
Re: Select Finder items by Regular Expression
- Subject: Re: Select Finder items by Regular Expression
- From: Bruce Robertson <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 08:19:07 -0700
> On 9/5/05 at 1:15 AM, Bruce Robertson <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I thought "entire contents of startup disk" was an ongoing, known
>> applescript bug.
>
> I don't know that it's a "bug" - I suspect that if it's left running with a
> timeout of 3-5 hours, it will actually return *the* record from hell with the
> results, RAM and other resources permitting. But it certainly doesn't behave
> like most scripters seem to think it should.
>
> Presuming that "make it return 900,000 files instantly" is not a reasonable
> option, what *should* it do? I'd bet that people who write the code are open
> to improvements if they're both backwards-compatible and don't break the
> AppleScript rules (i.e., displaying a confirmation dialog box that would break
> some scripts).
But in my case the request should return about 3 files, not 900,000.
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