Re: Slow Command in Snow Leopard
Re: Slow Command in Snow Leopard
- Subject: Re: Slow Command in Snow Leopard
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 17:47:19 -0500
Might I suggest something like this?
set filenames to paragraphs of (do shell script "ls -1d " & (quoted
form of posix path of prefsRef) & "/" & prefIdent & "*")
Which takes on the order of a twentieth of a second OMM (with
admittedly only about 400 files in the directory in question)...
On Sunday, March 7, 2010, Michelle Steiner wrote:
> On Mar 7, 2010, at 2:03 PM, Luther Fuller wrote:
>
>> Anyone know what's going on in SL that would cause this?
>
> I don't know what causes it, but I tested it. With a preferences folder containing 809 items, the script takes 35 seconds, whether searching for files that begin with, contain, or are the search string.
>
> Doesn't matter whether "as alias list" is there or not.
>
> Changing the folder to the user's library folder, with 89 items, the search is less than one second.
>
> Changing to the Applications folder, with 117 items, it takes 3 seconds.
>
> And a folder containing 167 PDF files and nothing else, it takes 1 second.
>
> -- Michelle
>
> --
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