revCopyFile slow?

Mark Schonewille m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com
Fri Apr 8 11:46:19 EDT 2011


Hi Maarten,

Yes, it is slow, because the underlying AppleScript needs to be compiled every time it is used. For big files, it might be useful, but if you have to copy many small files, it is a disaster. The safest and quickes option is probably to use the cp shell command.

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On 8 apr 2011, at 17:38, Maarten Koopmans wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I just started using revCopyFile, and well, on my Mac it felt..... slow.....
> Is that normal? Any faster way to do it - or just write my own in2out file
> copy?
> 
> --Maarten






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