Re: Calculating file size

FROM : Rainer Brockerhoff
DATE : Sun Apr 27 19:52:34 2008

At 02:49 -0700 27/04/08, <email_removed> wrote:
>From: Jens Alfke <<email_removed>>
>References: <<email_removed>>
>In-Reply-To: <<email_removed>>
>Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:33:26 -0700
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>On 26 Apr '08, at 6:50 PM, Cocoa Dev wrote:
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>>I was wondering what was the best way to calucate folder size with cocoa? I
>>was able to do this but it does not include resource forks:

>
>I think you'll need to drop down to a lower-level API to get the resource fork size; probably one of the "*CatInfo*" calls in <Files.h>. I can't really give specific advice because I haven't used those much since OS 9, and they've changed a lot since.


Check out the FolderSweep code at:
http://www.brockerhoff.net/src/ (at the end of the page).

You would pass in the bit masks asking for both logical fork sizes, and sum them for every file (they're 64bit unsigned integers).

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