On 26/11/2008 08:28, "Andrew Farmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 25 Nov 08, at 16:44, Joe Turner wrote: >> I have ben trying to find a good way to get an accurate count of >> files on a Volume. Using a NSDirectoryEnumerator takes way too long >> (a couples minutes), so, I figured out how to do it on the old >> Carbon FileManager using [FSGetVolumeInfo...] >> >> Is there a better way of doing it? Maybe with Cocoa tools? > > If you want a non-Carbon way of doing this, take a look at statfs64(). > It's not technically Cocoa, but it's not Carbon and it works just fine. > > An equivalent to your code would simply be: > > self.count = [NSNumber numberWithUnsignedLongLong:fsbuf.f_files]; In fact, f_files (when it works) reports the total number of nodes on the filesystem, so you need to subtract f_ffree to find the number of nodes which are occupied. Also, you need to test that neither of these numbers is -1, as some filesystems don't support telling you that stuff. Cheers, Graham. -- Graham Lee Senior Macintosh Software Engineer, Sophos Plc. +44 1235 540266 http://www.sophos.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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
