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Re: File size problem


  • Subject: Re: File size problem
  • From: Brian Christmas <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:13:23 +1000


On 22/07/2010, at 3:27 AM, Ronald Hofmann wrote:

Hi Santa,
in my opinion you need a tell Finder block.

It works this way.

set RTFDPath to "MBP:Users:rmh:Desktop:Newsletterv14n7.pdf"

tell application "Finder"
try
set theFileSize to physical size of file RTFDPath
display dialog theFileSize as text --< returns missing value
on error
set theFileSize to 0
end try
end tell

greetings, Ronald
hope you drop me one on Xmas :)))

Thanks Ronald, but the statement was already embedded as part of a tell Finder block

The answer is to read twice sequentially, as I found after testing for some time.

set ptd to path to desktop
set ptf to ptd & "2010-06-28 142254Z.rtf" as text
tell application "Finder"
set temp to (file ptf as alias)
set temp2 to properties of temp
set temp2 to properties of temp
set thesize to size of temp2
end tell
temp2

Regards

Santa

And what, you ask, was the beginning of it all?
And it is this......
Existence that multiplied itself
For sheer delight of being
And plunged with numberless trillions of forms
So that it might
find
itself
innumerably

Sri Aurobindo





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