every item of every folder of

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#1

I am running a simple script that works fine localy.
As soon as I try to make my source folder a Volume it seams to not want to look in every folders??? javascript:emoticon(‘:shock:’)
here is the script:

tell application “Finder”
every item of the every folder of “Archive:” whose name contains “abr”
end tell

this is the error message I am getting:
Can’t get every folder of “Archive:”.

can anyone help?
Thanks

#2

Give this a try

tell application “Finder”
every item of entire contents of every folder of “Archive:” whose name contains “abr”
end tell

Andrew

#3

still the same?
I get this error:
AppleScript Error
Can’t het every folder of “Archive:”.

#4

Sorry about that!!

tell application “Finder”
every item of entire contents of folder"Archive:" whose name contains “abr”
end tell

#5

I get this error now… at least it’s different?
any clue?
Finder got an error: AppleEvent timed out.

#6

You will get this error because the action that you have called has to traverse the entire volume that you have selected. If the script does not get a reply from the targeted app within 2 minutes you will get this error. What you can do is wrap the script in a timeout statement.

with timeout of xxx seconds-- where xxx is a number of second you want the script to wait for a response
tell application “Finder”
every item of entire contents of folder"Archive:" whose name contains “abr”
end tell
end timeout

Hope this helps

You can get more info on this information here
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleScript/Conceptual/AppleScriptLangGuide/index.html

#7

javascript:emoticon(‘:shock:’)
I am shocked to say the least!
If I use Command F even if it has to traverse the whole volume. it takes a few seconds?
There is something I am not getting here?

#8

The command - F is quicker because it references an index file for the find.