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. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat/Skype:LaurentDaudelin http://www.nemesys-soft.com/ Logiciels Nemesys Software laur...@nemesys-soft.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
