Re: Folder Action script runs on file renaming
Re: Folder Action script runs on file renaming
- Subject: Re: Folder Action script runs on file renaming
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:21:18 -0600
- Thread-topic: Folder Action script runs on file renaming
On 12/06/2007 16:13 PM, "Christopher Nebel" <email@hidden> wrote:
>> I have a folder action script that runs when items are added to the
>> folder.
>>
>> I just discovered that the script also runs when anything already in
>> the folder is renamed. I want to stop this.
>
> The basic rule for folder action scripts is to move the file out of
> the "hot" folder, if not immediately, then by the time the script
> finishes. There are two reasons for this. First is the one you've
> already found -- Folder Actions detects "new" items by name, so a
> renamed item is considered to be new. Second is that in order to find
> the new items, it must scan all the items in the folder -- this is a
> technical limitation of the OS -- which can become a performance
> problem as items are allowed to pile up into the thousands.
>
> Short version: move first, then rename.
Speaking of which, did Mac OS X 10.5 ever do anything about the issues where
an FA will start acting on a big file being moved into a folder before the
file has been completely moved?
--
"You humans call this thing a 'cursor' and you move it with 'mouse'! Bah!
A Klingon would not use such a device. We have a Karaghht-Gnot - which is
best translated as "An Aiming Daggar of 16x16 pixels" and we move it using
a Gshnarrrf which is a creature from the Klingon homeworld which posesses
just one, (disproportionately large) testicle...which it rubs along the
ground...a fearsome creature indeed.
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