Re: Timing of folder action scripts
Re: Timing of folder action scripts
- Subject: Re: Timing of folder action scripts
- From: Gary Tate <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:48:59 +0000
On 15 Mar 2006, at 21:49, email@hidden wrote:
One of those glitches involves the timing of the scripts. Editors
often
download files directly into the "hot" folders, so II've written an
80-second delay into each script.
I do something slightly different. I enter a loop and check the size
of the file. Once it stops growing you know it's all there. This is
probably safer than a delay as the file could take longer, or much
less than 80 seconds.
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