Re: Moving large PDF files with Applescript
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 16:17:51 -0400
- Thread-topic: Moving large PDF files with Applescript
On 4/1/09 4:12 PM, "Stockly, Ed" <email@hidden> wrote:
>>> Yvan>> I use for years a handler like the one which I sent. I never got any
> problem with it.
>
>
> Don't know about the OP, but I can't use that. The files are being uploaded
> to a drop box on a remote unix server where our access is limited. We can
> copy files to the server, but once they're there we can't rename, move or
> delete.
>
> I'm still looking at reading the eof code for PDFs (or in my case zip or sit
> files) to determine if a file is ready.
>
> The problem is these are large files and I don't wan't to read an entire 10
> meg file just to get to the last graph. So I tried getting the size of the
> file, and reading the last 20 characters, didn't work, but reading the last
> 300 characters did. I believe the difference was in resource fork.
>
> I'm guessing that the only resources sit/zip/pdf files will have are icons
> which have fixed size, so I'm hoping I can do something like this:
>
> tell application "Finder"
> set fileSize to size of file thisPath
> set physSize to physical size of file thisPath
> end tell
> set startPoint to (fileSize div 1) - 500
> set fileText to read file thisPath from startPoint
>
> if eofTag is in the last paragraph of fileText then
> set the end of filesToMove to thisPath
> end if
>
>
> But I'd feel a lot more confident if I knew for certain how big the resource
> fork was. Is there a way to get the size of the resource fork?
The size of the resource fork is not a fixed thing. However, what file
transfer methods are you using, and do you have at least basic SSH/SFTP/FTP
access, (i.e. You can get basic file metadata info)
--
"When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend."
US Marine Corps.
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