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Analyzing files in a system folder, then deleting them?
I’d like to incorporate a function into a patch that analyzes a folder on my system, if it’s over a certain size selectively delete the older files from this folder. I cannot find the best way to do this. I’ve got the filesys external but this only takes care of deleting files. Is there a way to do this without using the filedate object to look at every individual file in a folder?
if you are on a mac you can use [shell] or [aka.shell] for that…
hth ole
this is an addon to [mxj filesys]
public void size (String s) {
File f = new File(MaxSystem.maxPathToNativePath(s));
outlet (0, (f.length()/1024));
}it will spit the size of file when the input is [c:videofoo.avi]>[prepend size]>[mxj filesys]
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