Hi
On OSX this is easy to do-something like this should work
$_t_DocumentPath:=<—known name //if a partialthe image path is know
$_txt_OSASCRIPT:="mdfind "+Char(34)+$_t_DocumentPath+Char(34)
$_t_InputStream:=""
$_t_OutputStream:=""
LAUNCH EXTERNAL PROCESS($_txt_OSASCRIPT;$_t_InputStream;$_t_OutputStream)
> On 16 May 2017, at 07:59, John Baughman via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com>
> wrote:
>
> I am thinking that perhaps using Launch External Process there might be a way
> to search for a file and get back the path to the file if found.
>
> I have a method that recursively crawls through a volume or folder to locate
> a file, but it is relatively slow. It is pasted below. Any ideas to make this
> more efficient or know how to use LEP to do a file search. Needs to work on
> both Mac and Windows.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
> //Method: SearchFolderContents_Jut
> C_TEXT($1;$folderPath;$2;$documentToFind;$0;$pathToDocumentFound)
> $folderPath:=$1
> $documentToFind:=$2
> $pathToDocumentFound:=""
>
> DOCUMENT LIST($folderPath;$aDocuments)
> $found:=Count in array($aDocuments;$documentToFind)
>
> If ($found>0)
> $pathToDocumentFound:=$folderPath+$documentToFind
>
> End if
>
> If ($pathToDocumentFound="")
> FOLDER LIST($folderPath;$aFolders)
>
> For ($i;1;Size of array($aFolders))
> $pathToDocumentFound:=SearchFolderContents_Jut
> ($folderPath+$aFolders{$i}+Folder separator;$documentToFind)
> If ($pathToDocumentFound#"")
> $i:=Size of array($aFolders)+10
>
> End if
>
> End for
>
> End if
>
> $0:=$pathToDocumentFound
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