recursion limit when creating file list of harddrive

[JB]

Okay - Thank you very much again!

JB


> On Oct 25, 2015, at 6:09 PM, Alex Tweedly <alex at tweedly.net> wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure about cursor setting - you might put in a counter, and set it to busy every 1000 (or 10,000) times through loop.
> 
> What if we want only folder paths ?
> 
> I did briefly consider saying that the @pFiles and @pFolders parameters could have TRUE/False values on input, and then say something like
> (NB - typed into email, not tested !!!!)
> 
> on mouseUp
>  local theFolder
>  answer folder "Start where"
>  put it into theFile
> 
>  local filesList, folderList, errorList
>  put the millisecs into tStart
>  AllFiles theFile, true, filesList, folderList, errorList
> 
>  put filesList into field "Field 1"
> 
> end mouseUp
> 
> command AllFiles theFolder, pDetail, @pFiles, @pFolders, @pErrors
> 
>  set the defaultFolder to theFolder
>  if the result is not empty
>  then
>     put  "initial folder" & theFolder &CR afte rpErrorList
>     exit to top
>  end if
> 
>  put 0 into tHighest
>  put 0 into tCurrent
> 
>  add 1 to tHighest
>  put theFolder into tA[tHighest]
> 
>  repeat until tCurrent >= tHighest
> 
>     add 1 to tCurrent
> 
>     put tA[tCurrent] into tNow
>     set the defaultFolder to tNow
>     if the result is not empty then
>        put "Problem with" && tNow &Cr after pErrors
>        next repeat
>     end if
> 
>     if pFiles is TRUE then  -- Do we want to return list of files ??
>       if pDetailed then
>         put the detailed files into tF
>       else
>          put the files into tF
>       end if
>       repeat for each line L in tF
>          put tNow & "/" & L &CR after pFiles
>       end repeat
>     end if
> 
>     put the folders into tF
>     filter tF without ".*"
> 
>     repeat for each line L in tF
>        add 1 to tHighest
>        put tNow & "/" & L into tA[tHighest]
>     end repeat
> 
>  end repeat
> 
>  if pFolders is TRUE then  -- Do we want to return list of folders
>    combine tA with CR
>    put tA into pFolders
>  end if
> 
> end AllFiles
> 
> 
> 
> On 25/10/2015 23:58, JB wrote:
>> I have been testing it out and it is working good
>> so far.  I set the cursor to watch after selecting.
>> I am not sure if setting it to busy in a repeat will
>> take too much time on large operations.
>> 
>> Is there and easy way to have it only list the
>> folder paths?
>> 
>> JB
>> 
>> 
>>> On Oct 25, 2015, at 3:39 PM, Alex Tweedly <alex at tweedly.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Well, it's a sad comment on my filing system, but it was easier to rewrite this handler from scratch (and memory) than it was to find the original :-)
>>> 
>>> Note this is done as a handler rather than a function, because it has 3 return values - a list of files, a list of folders, and a list of any errors. It would be trivial to convert to a function if you prefer that; I just dislike functions with return parameter values.
>>> 
>>> So, it's had a decent half-hour of testing, but no more than that. Usual money back guarantee applies ....
>>> 
>>> btw - there is a variant using "repeat for each line" which is marginally more efficient, but it depends on a quirk of the current LC implementation, which allows appending to the variable being iterated over - so I won't mention it here; it could (conceivably, but not likely) fail in some future version.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> on mouseUp
>>>   local theFolder
>>>   answer folder "Start where"
>>>   put it into theFile
>>> 
>>>   local filesList, folderList, errorList
>>>   put the millisecs into tStart
>>>   AllFiles theFile, true, filesList, folderList, errorList
>>> 
>>>   put filesList into field "Field 1"
>>> 
>>> end mouseUp
>>> 
>>> command AllFiles theFolder, pDetail, @pFiles, @pFolders, @pErrors
>>> 
>>>   set the defaultFolder to theFolder
>>>   if the result is not empty
>>>   then
>>>      put  "initial folder" & theFolder &CR afte rpErrorList
>>>      exit to top
>>>   end if
>>> 
>>>   put 0 into tHighest
>>>   put 0 into tCurrent
>>> 
>>>   add 1 to tHighest
>>>   put theFolder into tA[tHighest]
>>> 
>>>   repeat until tCurrent >= tHighest
>>> 
>>>      add 1 to tCurrent
>>> 
>>>      put tA[tCurrent] into tNow
>>>      set the defaultFolder to tNow
>>>      if the result is not empty then
>>>         put "Problem with" && tNow &Cr after pErrors
>>>         next repeat
>>>      end if
>>> 
>>>      if pDetailed then
>>>         put the detailed files into tF
>>>      else
>>>         put the files into tF
>>>      end if
>>> 
>>>      repeat for each line L in tF
>>>         put tNow & "/" & L &CR after pFiles
>>>      end repeat
>>> 
>>>      put the folders into tF
>>>      filter tF without ".*"
>>> 
>>>      repeat for each line L in tF
>>>         add 1 to tHighest
>>>         put tNow & "/" & L into tA[tHighest]
>>>      end repeat
>>> 
>>>   end repeat
>>> 
>>>   combine tA with CR
>>>   put tA into pFolders
>>> 
>>> end AllFiles
>>> 
>>> Let me know of any problems.
>>> -- Alex.
>>> 
>>> On 25/10/2015 03:12, JB wrote:
>>>>> On Oct 24, 2015, at 5:33 PM, Alex Tweedly <alex at tweedly.net> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> If that's not it, then you need to change to a serialized rather than a recursive treewalk - I'm sure that's been posted on the use-list some time ago (if you can't find it, let me know and I'll dig one up)
>>>>> 
>>>>> -- Alex.
>>>> I would like a copy of that if you
>>>> dig one up.
>>>> 
>>>> JB
>>>> 
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