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Re: Findfile in large directories [message #50596 is a reply to message #50595]

Mon, 09 October 2006 03:35

greg michael
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Registered: January 2006

Senior Member

Keep the paths in an array - don't read them every time. Sometimes it
takes a long time to get a directory listing when there are so many. If
you're adding files to the list, you might want to keep track of them
yourself.

regards,
Greg

Wox wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 08:22:43 -0600, David Fanning <davidf@dfanning.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> FINDFILE is obsolete. Have you tried FILE_SEARCH?
>> No idea if it would be faster or not. I'd have guessed
>> the sorting would be the bottleneck here.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> David
>
> FILE_SEARCH makes it even slower.

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		Re: Findfile in large directories By: David Fanning on Mon, 09 October 2006 06:00
		Re: Findfile in large directories By: greg michael on Mon, 09 October 2006 03:35
		Re: Findfile in large directories By: Wox on Mon, 09 October 2006 00:14
		Re: Findfile in large directories By: George N. White III on Fri, 06 October 2006 11:26
		Re: Findfile in large directories By: David Fanning on Fri, 06 October 2006 07:22
		Re: Findfile in large directories By: Wox on Fri, 13 October 2006 01:03

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