usage of dropfolder

[Thomas McGrath III]

Ton,

How time sensitive is this? Immediately?

Can you set a flag upon first notice of the folder activity and then wait an indeterminate period of time to perform your LC action?


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On Apr 5, 2011, at 8:41 AM, tkuypers at telenet.be wrote:

> There will be a folder published on the network. Any user from any system in the network is able to drop files into that folder.
> The Mac running the app must be able to drop files in that folder as well.
> When files are dropped, they will be copied to the source of that published folder, so there is some delay involved.
> 
> Only when the files are completely copied to that folder, my app needs to start copying
> 
> By scripting "System Events" I know when the mac running the app is copying a file, so I can wait until local finder-copies are finished, but I need to make sure it will be ok to start processing files when they are copied from a remote Mac or PC to the dropfolder.
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> Ton
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