I believe that OS X creates a placeholder file while the "real" file is being copied/worked with. I am not sure what the method would be to determine if the process has completed yet. I suspect there is some kind of flag on the file itself, read only or a file type reserved for this sort of thing.
Oddly, this allows you to actually rename a file WHILE IT'S BEING COPIED. You may be able to do other things as well. Isn't UNIX wonderful? Bob Sent from my iPad On Apr 5, 2011, at 4:36 AM, "tkuyp...@telenet.be" <tkuyp...@telenet.be> wrote: > Hi gang, > > I'm stuck, after about 4 hours I have to admit I'm not clever enough for > this... > > I'm trying to implement a drop-folder based application. > When a file is found in the folder, I need to open it and check for some data > inside the file. > > The actual code to check inside the file takes about 0.01 seconds, so I get a > result almost immediately. When there are files in the folder when I start, > it works perfectly. > > But when the process is checking every x seconds if there are files in the > folder, thing go wrong: LiveCode sees a file in the folder, while the finder > is still copying the file to that folder. > So when I open the file, to read the content, it might still be empty. > > The files are jpg, CR2 (= raw images) and tiff files, ranging anywhere from > 10kb to 30 Mb in size, so copying can take a few minutes. > > And now my question: How do I know if the Finder finished copying? Checking > the file size doesn't work. > > Any help is more then welcome > > > Warm regards, > > Ton Kuypers > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
