Re: Identify image file count in directory

Hi Gary, Thanks for your reply. Do you know for sure that this should be significantly faster, or were you just guessing? You didn't say which particular API you had in mind, but some reading has led me to the fts APIs. These appear to be about 20% faster than NSFileManager (I specified

Re: Identify image file count in directory

I've worked on backup, syncing apps, and other file system related utilities for some rather well-known companies, so I've definitely explored the speed issues you're seeing. At one time I also had explored and used the CoreOS APIs that were shared with the legacy Carbon system (FSIterator,

Re: Identify image file count in directory

> On Nov 14, 2015, at 10:15 AM, Jonathan Taylor > wrote: > > Thanks for your reply. Do you know for sure that this should be significantly > faster, or were you just guessing? You didn't say which particular API you > had in mind, but some reading has led me to

Re: Identify image file count in directory

I would suggest to count the number of files asynchronously if possible, so the user doesn’t have to wait for this information in order to begin working with the panel. A couple of years ago I had to split by file type an enormous amount of restored files from a corrupt hard disk that were

Re: Identify image file count in directory

Try going down a level to the BSD layer APIs for directory contents traversal. -- Gary L. Wade (Sent from my iPad) http://www.garywade.com/ > On Nov 13, 2015, at 8:28 AM, Jonathan Taylor > wrote: > > Hi all, > > I want to be able to identify quickly

Identify image file count in directory

Hi all, I want to be able to identify quickly (programatically) how many image files reside in a particular directory. At present I call: [NSFileManager defaultManager] contentsOfDirectoryAtPath:dir error:nil]; and then examine the type suffixes (which in comparison is very quick). When