Re: Looking for help scanning entire drives
Re: Looking for help scanning entire drives
- Subject: Re: Looking for help scanning entire drives
- From: Laurent Daudelin <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:53:02 -0800
On Feb 23, 2011, at 08:43, Charles Srstka wrote:
> 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.
Thanks for the valuable comments, all.
I was thinking, what about using Spotlight for this? Set the scope of a NSMetaDataQuery and then configure the query to retrieve items that have been modified since a certain date?
-Laurent.
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