Getting list of items from network slow
Getting list of items from network slow
- Subject: Getting list of items from network slow
- From: brian mather <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:50:45 -0500
- Thread-topic: Getting list of items from network slow
Am I alone in enjoying ridiculously horrible network latency when querying a
folder on a SMB volume for it's contents with a Mac running 10.5.5?
tell application "Finder"
set thefolder to choose folder
set theFiles to every item of thefolder
--return theFiles
end tell
When I choose a volume local to my Mac this snippet returns results like
lightning. Choose a folder on my network and it takes nearly two minutes.
Discovered this as I was testing all of my department's scripts for a
transition from 10.4 to 10.5. Similarly poor results on MacPros and G5s so
hardware doesn't seem to be a large contributing factor.
I've googled this a bit and checked the list archive without much luck. I've
seen vague references to others suffering this same issue and was hoping for
a leg up. Is there a better method to get a list of files that I can iterate
through with repeat loops? Should this not be in a tell finder block? Should
I get 'files' and not 'items'?
Any help appreciated. I'm on digest so cc'ing back to me directly much
appreciated.
Brian
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