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Re: Finder Applescript changes in Snow Leopard
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Emmett Gray <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 9 Sep 2009 22:22:16 -0400
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Aha. Thank you. It does indeed work without the loop. System Events 
properly waits for a meaningful result (a couple of seconds of 
calculation on a large home folder), whereas the Finder did not and 
had to be repeatedly asked.

On Fri, 4 Sep 2009 13:50:06 +1000, Shane Stanley 
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>tell application "System Events" to set mySize to (size of alias myFolder)
>
>on my home folder, and there doesn't seem to be any need for a loop.>

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