Could you share the shell script that does the copy? That would be useful to many I think.
Bob On Mar 21, 2012, at 11:25 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote: > The advantages derive from the fact that LiveCode isn't doing the actual > copying with revCopyFile -- the Finder is. For completeness, the same > advantage applies to using a shell command. You don't get a progress dialog > though. > > Okay, I just did a quick one-off test with interface sounds off. For thirty > files that were each about 70kb, using a shell command was about 3x faster > than using revCopyFile. That's without taking advantage of the ability to > move and rename in one step with a shell command. If that's what you're > doing, the advantage would be even greater. > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Pete <p...@mollysrevenge.com> wrote: > >> Thanks all for the input. Sounds like Stephen's approach is the only way >> to get rid of it. Seems like that setting will apply to other sounds as >> well, but I'm OK with that. >> >> As far as using AppleScript, I'm using revCopyFile because the dictionary >> claims there are "certain advantages" to using it over "put URL" or any >> other method, amongst which is that it does not require reading the file >> into memory, and since some of these files could be pretty large, that's >> significant. On a Mac, it also displays a progress bar which I don;t think >> would be possible if I used "put URL". >> >> Pete >> >> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Geoff Canyon <gcan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I went straight to the shell command, so I don't know for sure, but this >>> sounds reasonable. There's also the overhead of spinning up AppleScript >> in >>> the first place. If Apple is doing that badly, that might also cause >>> problems I suppose. >>> >>> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 1:24 PM, stephen barncard < >>> stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com> wrote: >>> >>>> That was probably a big reason why multiple file transfers would take >>> more >>>> time - loading and unloading the sound - and perhaps the reason why it >>>> failed after memory was exceeded. >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-livecode mailing list >>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>> subscription preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Pete >> Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode