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Re: Obtaining the size of a directory
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Re: Obtaining the size of a directory


  • Subject: Re: Obtaining the size of a directory
  • From: Dominik Freyer <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 13:49:54 +0200

Hm, that would be the worst way. In the meantime I found a BSD Command 'du -hs' which can give me very fast the correct directory size. Can I use it as an NSTask efficiently?


Am 18.10.2004 um 13:04 schrieb Daniel Todd Currie:

To the best of my knowledge, you'll have to traverse the entire file tree within that directory. This is why it takes a while to calculate folder sizes in Finder.app when you first turn on folder size calculation.

-- DTC


On 2004 Oct 18, at 17:40, Dominik Freyer wrote:

Hi there,
I'm sure this question has been posted before, but I couldn't find a satisfacting answer anywhere. I'm buidling an application which has to go through a lot of Directories and get their sizes. I tried to use the fileAttributesAtPath method from the Filemanager (and the fileSize method to get it). It works perfectly for files but not for directories.
It seems to me, that the NSFilemanager doesn't count the sizes of the dircontents but shows something like a internal size information. Probably to safe time, I'm not sure. Any idea to get the dir-sizes fast und correct?
Best regards
Dominik

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