Re: Script that "Tells" Finder just Focuses on Finder instead of running
Re: Script that "Tells" Finder just Focuses on Finder instead of running
- Subject: Re: Script that "Tells" Finder just Focuses on Finder instead of running
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 10:17:01 +1100
On 5 Jan 2015, at 1:32 am, Deivy Petrescu <email@hidden> wrote:
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> First, I said possibly because I don’t know the extend of the “search”.
There's no real way of knowing that, as I see it. This is for a third party who is vision impaired, which presumably means he's likely to use it on *any* folder, and therefore it should try to cope with all possibilities.
> However, I can tell you that Phil’s solution provided me with a breakdown of my home folder faster than entire contents was able to cross one particular (“large”) folder.
No question. But imagine the end user has his Applications folder open. He's going to be overwhelmed with information from a shell script. Or he has his home folder open -- entire contents is likely to time out.
That said, the shell solution has the huge advantage of providing output in a usable format, and one that Alex likes. Suppose you know that the user will never use it on his Applications folder, and that entire contents will be fast enough. It seems to me that still leaves plenty of work to do converting a huge list of paths or whatever to a useful format. Doing the recursion in the Finder yourself would, I think, make the formatting part of the exercise easier.
But maybe I'm missing something. So let's say you're using entire contents -- can you show some code for how you intend to take that list of aliases or paths and format it something like Alex suggested?
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Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
<www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>
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