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Re: File size problem
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Re: File size problem


  • Subject: Re: File size problem
  • From: Joe <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:17:43 -0700

At 11:13 AM +1000 7/22/10, Brian Christmas wrote:
>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

Have you tried it in a System Events tell?

tell application "System Events"
 set x to physical size of disk item "Disk:Users:User:Desktop:afile"
end tell

Joe
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