revCopyFile chokes on 1,500 file loop

[Sivakatirswami]

(foot in mouth)

As it turns out we found we were programmatically generating a few new 
filenames with colons in them! Ouch.

After adding a function to strip out all but 0-9 a-z A-Z and only two 
forms of punctuation dash "-" and "_" underscore
it worked fine.

need to etch this policy in stone and stamp on the back of my head.

Rev is not the only program whose processes were failing recently 
because of file names.
Our team has been notorious for adding "any old punctuation" and high 
ANSI chars (option-whatever on the Mac) to file names.

Anyway, with clean file names to write to RevCopyFile ran thru a copy of 
1,758 files in no time at all.

Solved. Another example of "It's Not a Rev Problem at all...it's your 
own dumb script!"

Sivakatirswami





>
> On Aug 4, 2006, at 1:57 AM, Sivakatirswami wrote:
>
>> Goal: copy about 1,500 files from one set of directories to another 
>> directory with a new name on the server, not on the client machine,  
>> which is simply initiating, controlling the process remotely.
>
>
> Hi Sivakatirswami,
>
> I had this same problem with my FTP program.  Dave Cragg brought the 
> OS X maximum file open limitation (and maybe Windows) to my 
> attention.  Maybe something like this is affecting your solution.  If 
> that is the case, I would find the number that does work for you and 
> then add a little more code that will batch the files instead of 
> throwing them all at the system at one time.  This is just a thought.
>
>
> Mark Talluto
> --CANELA Software
> http://www.canelasoftware.com
>
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