Are you sure you are actually hitting a recursion limit ?
Another (perhaps more likely) problem is that you are hitting a
protected directory, or one which you cannot access (e.g. because of
strange character in name).
I would (at a minimum) put in a check that you have moved to the folder:
on directoryWalk whatFolder
--put whatFolder
--exit to top
set the itemDel to "/"
set the directory to whatFolder
if the directory <> whatFolder then
-- give some error somewhere
exit directoryWalk
end if
put the files into temp
If that's not it, then you need to change to a serialized rather than a
recursive treewalk - I'm sure that's been posted on the use-list some
time ago (if you can't find it, let me know and I'll dig one up)
-- Alex.
On 25/10/2015 00:28, Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D wrote:
Hi,
long time ago i created a program which creates a list of files of backup cds
or dvds and stores that listings in a database with some additional information
like cd name/number.
So if the customer needs to know on which cd/dvd a needed fileis, the database
can be searched. This worked fine a long time. But with time the customer used
harddrives for the backups.
So they imported now the file listing of harddrives. Even that worked fin. But
now with bigger drives and more stuff stored on the drives my program is not
able to import the file listing anymore if the number of files/folders exceed a
special number. It just freezes.
If i try to create a directory listing of such a drive in Livecode i get an
recursion limit error telling me that the recursion limit of 400000 was
reached. I tried to increase that limit, but i still get that error, but with
the newly set value.
I am using a script snippet which was posted by Scott Rossi to the list and was
originally from Geoff Canyon in 2002.
http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/metacard/2002-August/002274.html
Is there a way to scan a complete drive with LC regardless how many folders and
subfolder that drive contains without getting that recursion limit error?
Regards,
Matthias
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