Re: File size problem
Re: File size problem
- Subject: Re: File size problem
- From: Brian Christmas <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:51:27 +1000
| G'day Joe, and thanks. That might work, I'll test it when I have time.
I think I've narrowed the problem down.
The script opens the mail in TextEdit, copies it to the desktop, then to a folder on the desktop and renames it to an '.rtfd' extension if it doesn't have attachments. Then it copies it to the server.
This happens fast. I believe the Finder does not update it's data on the file until it needs to get some information on it, and needs two reads to return the size. The first read only locates the file and updates the finders position of it.
At least I think that's what's happening! A system events read just might update the data in one go.
Regards
Santa
On 22/07/2010, at 4:17 PM, Joe wrote: 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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