On 2/15/10 4:50 PM, Gideon King said:
Thanks for the suggestion. Have not encountered Scripting Bridge before
and have very little experience or understanding of AppleScript and no
knowledge of Apple Events or what they do. I had a vague notion that
Apple Events were pretty much old technology
Gideon King wrote:
1. Use NSTask to create a zip file, passing in as arguments all the
filenames to zip. My question about this would be whether I would
run into any restrictions with the length of the command which well
be beyond the old 1024 character limits (not sure if any command
Hi, I have a need to zip a selection of files from a folder. Sometimes the
number of files may be in the hundreds, and sometimes some of the files may be
multiple gigabytes in size. I need them to be referenced from a specific base
folder in the hierarchy. Deployment is 10.5+
From what I can
Gideon King (gid...@novamind.com) on 2010-02-15 00:28 said:
Hi, I have a need to zip a selection of files from a folder.
...
Are there any other options that I'm not aware of?
NSWorkspaceCompressOperation? Sounds promising, right? But the docs
say This operation always returns an error?
On Feb 14, 2010, at 9:28 PM, Gideon King wrote:
1. Use NSTask to create a zip file, passing in as arguments all the filenames
to zip. My question about this would be whether I would run into any
restrictions with the length of the command which well be beyond the old 1024
character limits
Thanks for the suggestion. Have not encountered Scripting Bridge before and
have very little experience or understanding of AppleScript and no knowledge of
Apple Events or what they do. I had a vague notion that Apple Events were
pretty much old technology from before OSX, but now I see that it
1. Use NSTask to create a zip file, passing in as arguments all the
filenames to zip. My question about this would be whether I would run into
any restrictions with the length of the command which well be beyond the old
1024 character limits (not sure if any command line argument limits are
