Re: file references

Subject: Re: file references
From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:35:56 -0600

On Nov 15, 2012, at 12:13 PM, Jim Brandt wrote:

For a "large" directory (220 files and folders), several folders deep, the Finder took 25 seconds to return this list while System Events only took < 1 second.
If I then have to jump through hoops to use that reference though, I'll probably try a different way. (I'm leaning towards a Unix "ls" command).

Using 'ls' is a good way to lean. Using 'find' is also a good way to lean.

I use a variation on the handler, below, to get an alias to every mail file in a mailbox (.mbox) folder no matter how deeply nested. (.mbox folders in Lion have a complicated structure.)

on getFileAliasList(folderAlias)

set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {return}

quoted form of (POSIX path of folderAlias)

do shell script "find " & the result & " -name '*.emlx'"

set fileList to (text items of the result)

repeat with i from 1 to (count items of fileList)

(POSIX file (item i of fileList)) as alias

set item i of fileList to the result

end repeat

return fileList

end getFileAliasList --------------------------------------

And this handler seems to be extremely fast in Lion. You will have to read the help for 'find' to understand how to get the files you want.

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