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Re: Moving large PDF files with Applescript
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Re: Moving large PDF files with Applescript


  • Subject: Re: Moving large PDF files with Applescript
  • From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:01:34 -0400
  • Thread-topic: Moving large PDF files with Applescript

On 4/1/09 3:53 PM, "Mark J. Reed" <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.

Because I try to not get that specific. If people copy my solution, they
never come up with possibly a better one on their own, or one that might
work better for their own needs. Often, just letting people know a thing IS
possible creates better solutions than anything I'll ever come up with.

>
> 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.

Yep, and it provides a small measure of "what you think you got is what you
actually got."

>
>> 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.

If it's not reliable, why would you use it. As well, "robust design",
especially when it comes to things like this, are situation-dependent. If I
know my network is highly reliable, and I know what transfer methods are
going to be used, then I can create something that is robust in my situation
that would fall apart in a different situation. Robust is not the same as
ironclad here.

>
> 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?

For you to attack me would require me to take someone I don't know
seriously. That's not going to happen. However, you started getting' all
sorts of huffy because I wasn't spelling things out at the level you
desired, and kept insisting that it wasn't in fact easy.

Sometimes, the rest of the world doesn't have to prove anything to you.

--
Q: Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he
doesn't know about it until the next morning?
A: Did you actually pass the bar exam?


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