Name
info for
Synopsis
file/folder information
file/folder information
Gets information about an item on disk. Returns a file information record packed with useful stuff. If you ask for the info for a folder, the script may take some time to run, in order to sum the sizes of all the files within it; you can prevent this by saying without size
.
Example
set uf to (path to home folder as string) set L to list folder uf set s to {} repeat with f in L -- collect sizes of all items set end of s to size of (info for file (uf & f)) end repeat set maxItem to 0 set maxVal to 0 repeat with i from 1 to (count s) -- find biggest size if item i of s > maxVal then set maxItem to i set maxVal to item i of s end if end repeat display dialog "The biggest thing in your home folder is: " & item maxItem of L
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