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Re: Loops


  • Subject: Re: Loops
  • From: m <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 23:27:54 -0800

All sage advice.
The problem I keep running into seems two fold.

There seems to be a limit on the number of files ( in this case Mail files ie emails) that one can move at one time. Exceeding this mystery number leads to the error that Mail is unresponsive. OTOH, looping through a number of mails, one at a time, does seem to hit a speed bump at some point. but the point raised about the implementation of the loop may have played a role.
I do take the other points about not starting with Mail, but the AS mail scripting program I saw does not work for me, and I am trying to write something that I have needed on more than one occasion.
Besides, I like the challenge and the chance to interact with really smart and intelligent programmers!!! :-)






On Feb 1, 2008, at 4:13 PM, Luther Fuller wrote:

On Feb 1, 2008, at 6:01 PM, Michelle Steiner wrote:
On Feb 1, 2008, at 3:48 PM, Luther Fuller wrote:
When you move files by counting down they don't get reordered.

A good explanation and solution, but why index the files at all? If you are moving ALL the files in a folder, you can do this ...

tell application "Finder"
	repeat until (count files of somefolder) = 0
		move (some file of somefolder) to someotherfolder
	end repeat
end tell

Other than illustrating loops, why not this:

tell application "Finder" to move files of somefolder to someotherfolder

-- Michelle

Now, that's a one-liner that I like. Never use a loop you can avoid.

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