First thought : I thought (according to Dictionary) that "shell" would wait until the command was complete before returning - dictionary says
The current handler pauses until the shell returns its result. If the command was successful but did not return anything, the shell function returns empty.
Second try : why take a checksum, why not just use the file size ? Getting the checksum may involve copying the file from the remote server into your laptop to calculate the checksum.

Third try : instead of doing "shell 'cp file ....' "  could you do
   load url ("file:" & tRemotepathname)
   ....   check the cachedURLs ....
   put url("file:" & tRemotepathname) into url('file:" & tLocalfilename)

-- Alex.

On 22/05/2010 23:35, Sivakatirswami wrote:
Work working on an in-house file manager - RCS for Indesign (since Adobe did an "end of life" for Version Cue)

It's coming along well, in fact really well.

One challenge is that I'm using  lots of these:

put ("mv " & quote & gLocalFilePath & quote &" "& quote & (gLocalProjectPath& "/"& tShortFileName) & quote) into tShell
   get shell (tShell)

put ("cp " & quote & (gLocalProjectPath& "/"& tShortFileName) & quote &" "& quote & (gServerProjectPath& "/"& tShortFileName) & quote) into tShell
   get shell (tShell)

to more files around and rename them... it works great.

Is there a way to monitor a background shell process like this?

The problem is if you copy from the Big Server on the LAN... to my Little MacBook Pro... you won't know when the file is completely copied to the local hard drive before doing:

launch (gLocalProjectPath &"/" & pFileName) with the uInDesignPath of this stack

Typically RunRev will issue the unix cp command and then immediately launch inDesign, which "crokes" because the file is incomplete on the local hard drive.

Now I have some ideas about how to do this: get the checksum some of the remote file, do a send in 30 ticks (repeatedly) test of the local file until the local file's checksum matches the remote file and then launch it.

But before I go after this, I was wondering if anyone had any other method? Most "cool" would be a progress bar, but I'm not sure RunRev can monitor a local unix copy file process....or, if it can, how to do it.

Thanks!
Sivakatirswami





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