I'm trying to figure out how to determine the amount of diskspace used by a number of files. What I did was use the Long Files to get my list, loop through that list adding item 2 and item 3 of each line together (MacOS, so item 2 is the size of the data fork and item 3 is the size of the resource fork) and adding that to the total each pass.
I _do_ get the correct answer, but that is not how much disk space is actually used. As an example, i have a folder that my stack reports back as 726,510,022 bytes (this is correct). divide that by 1024 and i get 709,482KB or roughly 709.5MB. Finder shows that those files actually use 693.6MB on the 120GB HFS+ disk, and toast shows that the files will need 684.4MB on a 700MB "Mac OS Extended and PC (Hybrid)" disk. I assume the discrepencies are all due to the block allocation differences between the different sized devices. I _don't_ want to create a 700MB HD partition (this would be not only inconvenient, but not workable for me), is there some way of determining how much space a file (or series of files in this case) on a large storage device will actually use on a smaller storage device? --HangTime [Will Compute for Food] B-)> _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
