usage of dropfolder

[tkuypers at telenet.be]

Hi gang,

I'm stuck, after about 4 hours I have to admit I'm not clever enough for this...

I'm trying to implement a drop-folder based application.
When a file is found in the folder, I need to open it and check for some data inside the file.

The actual code to check inside the file takes about 0.01 seconds, so I get a result almost immediately. When there are files in the folder when I start, it works perfectly.

But when the process is checking every x seconds if there are files in the folder, thing go wrong: LiveCode sees a file in the folder, while the finder is still copying the file to that folder.
So when I open the file, to read the content, it might still be empty.

The files are jpg, CR2 (= raw images) and tiff files, ranging anywhere from 10kb to 30 Mb in size, so copying can take a few minutes.

And now my question: How do I know if the Finder finished copying? Checking the file size doesn't work.

Any help is more then welcome


Warm regards,

Ton Kuypers