That is a good question. The way I found out it was limited is I was using the code supplied in the File Lister 2 tutorial. I was accessing a folder with a lot of files and subfolders but I do not think it had 400,000 files and sub folders in it so I am thinking it is limited to 400,000 recursive attempts. What happened is the script quit while trying to access the files and sub folders and a dialog appeared and said recursive is limited to 400,000. That is worse than being limited to 400,000 files and folders.
I think we need to have the NSFIleManager. I have Xcode examples and I was going to try to write an extension since Trevor provided the link for Objective-C externals but I have Mavericks and the latest version of Xcode. I also have xcide 2.4 on this computer and it runs but when I try to compile using the code from Trevor it says something about I can’t use it with this version of OS X or whatever I do not remember, any way it makes me think I need to set up my old system to compile unless someone knows how to make it work with the latest Xcode and then I will probably need all of the older SDK software too. Since I really am not very familiar with any of the above yet I am working on other parts of my program but I will eventually work on putting it all together. With the NSFIleManager I would think we would be able to access directories as fast as Apple since they wrote the code. It looks like it will be pretty easy once I figure a few thing out and write a couple of sample externals with Objective-C. There is not much to using the NSFileManager itself from what I have seen. John Balgenorth On Sep 29, 2014, at 4:10 PM, Alex Tweedly <a...@tweedly.net> wrote: > "recursive is limited to 400,000" ? Is that 400,000 files, or folders, or ?? > > The File Walker link (i.e. > http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/livecode/tips/file007.htm ) should work - > it would be very interesting to find out why it doesn't (maybe URL encoding > of the file names??) > > However, it too is recursive. Here's a non-recursive version of it, which is > somewhat faster in some cases: (be careful testing this - you need to run it > repeatedly to avoid file-system caching effects). > > > on dirWalk whatFolder > local temp, tCount, tDirList, tDirsToDo > set the itemDel to "/" > set the directory to whatFolder > put whatfolder &CR into tDirsToDo > repeat forever > put line 1 of tDirsToDo into whatFolder > set the directory to whatFolder > delete line 1 of tDirsToDo > put the files into temp > add the number of lines of temp to tCount > sort temp > repeat for each line x in temp > put whatFolder & "/" & x & cr after gHierList > end repeat > put the folders into tDirList > sort tDirList > delete line 1 of tDirList > repeat for each line x in tDirList > put whatFolder & "/" & x & CR after tDirsToDo > end repeat > if the number of lines in tDirsToDo = 0 then exit repeat > end repeat > end dirWalk > > -- Alex. > > On 29/09/2014 18:10, JB wrote: >> Here is a link for a file and folder lister >> that uses recursive. >> >> http://lessons.runrev.com/m/4071/l/17080-files-and-folders-part-2 >> >> It appears recursive is limited to 400,000. >> >> As for the File Walker link I tried it in one of >> my folders that has a lot of files and subfolders >> and it did not work for me but it did in other >> folders. >> >> If you get one that works please post it. >> >> John Balgenorth >> >> >> >> On Sep 29, 2014, at 8:59 AM, Bob Sneidar <bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi all. >>> >>> I remember reading in a post that someone had made a stack that would walk >>> through a file folder and enumerate all the files and folders. I cannot for >>> the life of me find it in the Livecode Share site or the forums. I cannot >>> search for “list files” or “find all files” because the forum search >>> complains the words I am searching for are too simple! <GAAAHHH!> >>> >>> I have written a command to do it and it works up through the files in the >>> first folder it finds, but when it comes to going back to a prior recursion >>> it does not seem to work. Here is the handler: >>> >>> on enumerateFilesAndFolders theCurrentPath, @theCurrentList >>> set the defaultFolder to theCurrentPath >>> put the files into theCurrentFileList >>> put the folders into theCurrentFolderList >>> put theCurrentFileList & theCurrentFolderList into >>> theCurrentFilesAndFolders >>> filter theCurrentFilesAndFolders without ".*" >>> sort theCurrentFilesAndFolders Ascending >>> >>> repeat for each line theCurrentLine in theCurrentFilesAndFolders >>> put theCurrentPath & "/" & theCurrentLine into thePath >>> >>> if there is a file thePath then >>> put thePath & cr after theCurrentList >>> else if there is a folder thePath then >>> put thePath & “/“ & cr after theCurrentList >>> put thePath into theCurrentPath >>> enumerateFilesAndFolders theCurrentPath, theCurrentList >>> end if >>> end repeat >>> end enumerateFilesAndFolders >>> >>> It seems after the recent iteration is finished, the value of >>> theCurrentPath is not reverting to the version of the prior iteration >>> instance. In other words, it seems to be global to all instances of the >>> iterations of the handler. I was under the distinct impression that each >>> iteration had it’s own copies of a given variable because of the implicit >>> scoping used by Livecode. Apparently I am mistaken. >>> >>> I would like to see how anyone else has done a file walker. >>> >>> Bob S >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
