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Re: Detecting change in folder contents

From Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups alt.comp.lang.applescript
Subject Re: Detecting change in folder contents
Date 2017-04-14 21:55 +0000
Organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID <elcurfFp8tdU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References <1n4hrfj.ltzdtmkkaeiN%adrian@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid>

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On 2017-04-14, Adrian Tuddenham <adrian@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> wrote:
> OS 8.6
> Applescript 1.3.7
>
> I am trying to write a backup script and want to detect only those
> folders where changes have taken place.  I want to avoid burrowing down
> into thousands of archived folders and files where there have been no
> changes.

Why use AppleScript for this? There are command-line tools like rsync
that are designed for this purpose and excel at it.

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JR

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Detecting change in folder contents adrian@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Adrian Tuddenham) - 2017-04-14 22:01 +0100
  Re: Detecting change in folder contents Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-04-14 21:55 +0000
    Re: Detecting change in folder contents adrian@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Adrian Tuddenham) - 2017-04-15 08:59 +0100
      Re: Detecting change in folder contents Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-04-15 13:32 +0000
  Re: Detecting change in folder contents Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-04-15 13:36 +0000
    Re: Detecting change in folder contents adrian@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Adrian Tuddenham) - 2017-04-15 17:52 +0100
      Re: Detecting change in folder contents Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-04-15 16:58 +0000
        Re: Detecting change in folder contents adrian@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Adrian Tuddenham) - 2017-04-15 21:01 +0100
          Re: Detecting change in folder contents Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-04-15 21:27 +0000

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