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On 2007-20-10, at 15:49, Joe wrote:

I am trying to write a script that will let me crawl through the contents of a folder returning some information about each item contained therein.

Depending on what you need, MetaData.osax <http://www.vcn.bc.ca/~philip/> can deliver in a reasonable amount of time and report only specific types of info:

set res to {}

set dirs to "~"

set flist to md query "kMDItemFSName=='*.jpg'" in directories dirs reporting kMDItemPath

repeat with f in flist

set end of res to kMDItemPath of f

end repeat

res

The md show dictionary command gives the complete list (~ 120) of the information properties available. It can deal with tilde expansion in directory or file names -- i.e. "~" is the same as "path to home folder" etc. This example will return all the info it knows about for each .jpg in the target directory:

set dirs to path to home folder

md query "kMDItemFSName=='*.jpg'" in directories dirs

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	>Get info for items in a folder (From: Joe <email@hidden>)