On 2/15/10 4:50 PM, Gideon King said:
>Thanks for the suggestion. Have not encountered Scripting Bridge before
>and have very little experience or understanding of AppleScript and no
>knowledge of Apple Events or what they do. I had a vague notion that
>Apple Events were pretty much old technology
Gideon King wrote:
1. Use NSTask to create a zip file, passing in as arguments all the
filenames to zip. My question about this would be whether I would
run into any restrictions with the length of the command which well
be beyond the old 1024 character limits (not sure if any command
lin
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> 1. Use NSTask to create a zip file, passing in as arguments all the
> filenames to zip. My question about this would be whether I would run into
> any restrictions with the length of the command which well be beyond the old
> 1024 character limits (not sure if any command line argument limits a
Thanks for the suggestion. Have not encountered Scripting Bridge before and
have very little experience or understanding of AppleScript and no knowledge of
Apple Events or what they do. I had a vague notion that Apple Events were
pretty much old technology from before OSX, but now I see that it
On Feb 14, 2010, at 9:28 PM, Gideon King wrote:
> 1. Use NSTask to create a zip file, passing in as arguments all the filenames
> to zip. My question about this would be whether I would run into any
> restrictions with the length of the command which well be beyond the old 1024
> character lim
Gideon King (gid...@novamind.com) on 2010-02-15 00:28 said:
>Hi, I have a need to zip a selection of files from a folder.
>
> ...
>
>Are there any other options that I'm not aware of?
NSWorkspaceCompressOperation? Sounds promising, right? But the docs
say "This operation always returns an error
Hi, I have a need to zip a selection of files from a folder. Sometimes the
number of files may be in the hundreds, and sometimes some of the files may be
multiple gigabytes in size. I need them to be referenced from a specific base
folder in the hierarchy. Deployment is 10.5+
From what I can se
