On 9 Jan 2015, at 05:53, Shane Stanley <
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On 8 Jan 2015, at 2:40 pm, Alex Hall <
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Would the modification you suggest below, to let it follow sim links, break anything with normal folders?
So it turns out that's true -- but it also turns out that it doesn't really follow symlinks. Here's a version that will:
I'm curious as to how this performs on people's home folders.
Like the intitial offerings in this thread, I find this runs but doesn't return within 2 minutes (in fact, I let it run for 9 minutes and it stil didn't return; fans, of course, were maxing out at 6200rpm).
Admittedly that's on a reasonably old mac (2009 MBP), but with 8GB RAM and a two-disk internal "Fusion" drive (125GB SSD and 750GB, 7200rpm platter). The combined drive is 50% free and the home folder, if Finder is to be believed, is 370GB.
I know that's a lot of work, but I'd still expect anything usable to return within a couple of minutes, especially given the relative speed of using ls -R by comparison. Unlike Shane, my laziness has thus far got the better of me in terms of trying to improve the formatting of the shell script option. If I get the chance over the weekend I'll have a go at it, unless others report this script returns the home folder in reasonable time (in which case perhaps I have a local issue that's causing the problem).
Best
Phil
NB: DisplayDroid beta (a lightweight script editor and automation tool) is now availabe for free download. More info on
sqwarq.com/displaydroid