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From: Lewis_P@cc.curtin.edu.au (Peter Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: PBGetFInfo takes forever to return
Message-ID: <5184.2771e29c@cc.curtin.edu.au>
Date: 21 Dec 90 02:23:24 GMT
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
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Hi All,
   Does anyone know why PBGetFInfo with a file index that is greater than
the number of files in the directory takes a huge amount of time to return?  
(On a Plus with the cache disabled, it can take well over a second!
Turning on the cache helps, but it still takes a long time).  This wouldnt
be so bad, but what I want to do requires that I call PBGetFInfo in this
way many times (several hundred), so what should take a couple seconds
takes over a minute.  Has anyone else come across this?  I've tried it on a
vanila system (6.0.2), so it isnt any nasty inits. (I don't think I have
lost my mind yet, but I may in the near future :-).

   Alternatively, is there anyway to determine the number of files in a
folder?  (I know there is a way of determining the number of files&folders
in a folder, but I need to know how many files there are - It might
actually be quicker to use GetCatInfo, and ignore folders and do the
indexing myself, but this would be VERY messy).
 
TIA for any info, & Merry Christmas,
   Peter.
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