Re: Moving large PDF files with Applescript
Re: Moving large PDF files with Applescript
- Subject: Re: Moving large PDF files with Applescript
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 15:53:39 -0400
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:32 PM, John C. Welch <email@hidden> wrote:
> Since we're moving the file at the conclusion, and changing the name of a
> file is pretty easy, the answer is obvious. Prepend the bytecount of the
> file onto the name of the file.
Wonderful suggestion. Eminently workable. I don't know that I'd go
so far as "obvious", but even if it is, it was by no means implicit in
any previous discussion. We could have avoided a lot of irritation if
you'd just proposed it in answer to our objections, rather than
pretending that we had nothing to object to in the first place because
this solution was right there in front of us.
I still dislike solutions that are based on polling rather than an
event trigger, as a matter of principle and efficiency. But certainly,
having an explicit size to check against makes the delay loop approach
much more robust than just waiting for the size to stop changing for
some small time period.
> That's your takeaway from it, and it seems to be based on your assumption
> that the delay loop can't be implemented in a usable fashion. Not my fault
> that's not correct.
I never said it wasn't "usable". I said it wasn't, in the general
case, "reliable". That's not the same thing at all. Obviously you
and Yvan and others have used such solutions successfully; it would be
foolish to claim that they aren't usable. But anecdotal success is
not the same thing as robust design.
Regardless, my critique wasn't intended as an attack on you, so I
don't know why you got all huffy and condescending. Maybe you're the
one taking this mailing list stuff too personally?
--
Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>
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