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Re: Folder Actions Question
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Re: Folder Actions Question


  • Subject: Re: Folder Actions Question
  • From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 13:00:33 -0700

On Sep 5, 2008, at 8:07 AM, Stuart Milliken wrote:

> Depending on how you coded it, it's highly possible that is happening.
However, unless you post the code, it is difficult to say for sure.


The script is as follows. Thanks for looking.

Stuart


on adding folder items to thisFolder after receiving someItems tell application "Finder" set label index of thisFolder to 4 --blue end tell end adding folder items to

on removing folder items from thisFolder after losing someItems
tell application "System Events"
set filesInFolder to every file of thisFolder whose visible is true
set n to count filesInFolder
set foldersInFolder to every folder of thisFolder whose visible is true
set n to n + (count foldersInFolder)
end tell
tell application "Finder"
if n = 0 then
set label index of thisFolder to 7 --gray
else
set label index of thisFolder to 4 --blue
end if
end tell
end removing folder items from

I don't know about the vagaries of Folder Actions but in general, you'll get a faster result if you're only sending events to one application. Since you can ask the Finder for the same file and folder count, I think that's one area which could be optimized.



Philip Aker echo email@hidden@nl | tr a-z@. p-za-o.@

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