Re: Minor filesize differences between "info" inspector and NSFileManager on SOME files.
Re: Minor filesize differences between "info" inspector and NSFileManager on SOME files.
- Subject: Re: Minor filesize differences between "info" inspector and NSFileManager on SOME files.
- From: Charles Bennett <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 13:14:27 -0400
That was it. Thanks Rosyna!
Thanks to Graeme Hilbert as well, for pointing out that
ls -al file.doc/rsrc would show the size of the resource fork.
I didn't know about the /rsrc option. Then again I'm a UNIX head
so I never think of resource forks.. :-)
Seems like there should be a bug report filed here.
To be consistant NSFileManager, ls and FSGetCatalogInfo
should at least agree.
Chuck
Rosyna wrote:
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The .doc file would probably have a resource fork. And possibly that
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resource fork contains only a 'usro' resource The terminal and by
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extension cocoa cannot handle resource forks reliably, completely
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ignoring their existence. If you want the real file size, you need to
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use the carbon FSGetCatalogInfo function instead.
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Ack, at 5/10/02, Charles Bennett said:
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>I have an odd little file size quirk that I wonder if anyone can
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>shed some light on.
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>I have four files in a directory.
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>Inspecting them with the Finder's Info panel I see
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> file 1 -- 7,774 (bytes)
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> file 2 -- 49,348 (bytes)
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> file 3 -- 169,472 (bytes)
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> file 4 -- 17,408 (bytes)
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>But looking at the same files programatically via the FileManager I see
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> file 1 -- 7,774 (bytes)
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> file 2 -- 49,152 (bytes) << it's different. but just a little.
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>(It's a Word .doc file)
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> file 3 -- 169,472 (bytes)
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> file 4 -- 17,408 (bytes)
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>The odd thing is that the files before and after agree with the "info".
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>doing an ls -al on the directory
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>agrees with the FileManager so it's "info" that's out, but I don't
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>understand why.
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>It's no big deal. I was just calculating how much I could fit on a CD
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>and noticed that my calculations didn't match the Finder.
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>Side Note: I tried to search mamasan but can only see the first page
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>of results
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>the Next arrow, or direct page selection yield
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>"You don't have permission to access /search/ on this server"
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>it shouldn't offer if it doesn't really mean it :-)
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Sincerely,
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Rosyna Keller
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Technical Support/Holy Knight/Always needs a hug
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Unsanity: Unsane Tools for Insanely Great People
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remember what we were talking about. Thanks.
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