File Walker

[JB]

And what do you mean by folders that cannot
be accessed?  Since when are they not able
to be accessed?  I access them all of the time.
I am a typical user who accesses files & folders
everyday the same way.

So you are telling me they cannot be accessed
and I encourage you to put a program on the
market and explain that to those who access
their folders every day and your program does
not allow them to access it.

They will read your response and quit your program
and continue to access their folders as usual and you
will not hear from them again because they do not want
to spend their time explaining to you they are able to
access their folders without your program.

If it causes me problems it will cause someone else
problems and I am not going to explain to them do
not use those folders with my program or block it
and give them a dialog stating it cannot be accessed.

I liked the idea of recursive but it does not work good
for me.

John Balgenorth



On Sep 30, 2014, at 1:19 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:

> JB wrote:
> 
>> For now I will not use recursive to list files or folders.
> 
> I think we've established that recursion errors are the symptom but not the problem (that is, unless you have directory structures deeper than 400,000 levels, but then I suspect you'd see inode problems long before you'd have a chance to walk through them with LC).
> 
> The question is: How do we handle error conditions when a folder cannot be accessed?
> 
> The original code you had bails because it isn't doing appropriate error checking, and Alex' modification bails whenever it encounters a folder it can't access.
> 
> Unless you write some code to handle that differently, it's bailing either way.
> 
> -- 
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Systems
> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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