Re: Looking for help scanning entire drives
Re: Looking for help scanning entire drives
- Subject: Re: Looking for help scanning entire drives
- From: Charles Srstka <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:43:09 -0600
On Feb 23, 2011, at 5:46 AM, Andreas Grosam wrote:
>
> On Feb 23, 2011, at 12:37 PM, Andreas Grosam wrote:
>
>> If there is no appropriate free or commercial tool which could solve your problem already, I would suggest the following:
>>
>> 1) Use a NSDictionaryEnumerator in order to recursively iterate through a specified dictionary at any volume.
>> 2) For each file item,
>> 3) skip it if you don't want to process it, or
>> 4) retrive file name (url), modification date and whether it is a dictionary
>> 4.1) process the file item
>
>
> Ups, replace "NSDictionaryEnumerator" with "NSDirectoryEnumerator" and "dictionary" with "directory" in the description.
>
> It should read:
> 1) Use a *NSDirectoryEnumerator* in order to recursively iterate through a specified *directory* at any volume.
> 2) For each file item,
> 3) skip it if you don't want to process it, or
> 4) retrive file name (url), modification date and whether it is a *directory*
> ...
>
> Sorry for the mistake :)
If you’re scanning the entire drive, FSCatalogSearch is likely to be a lot faster than NSDirectoryEnumerator.
Charles_______________________________________________
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