Counting Files In A folder

[warrenk]

I am trying to count the number of files in a selected folder and place it in a text box. I am a newbie so I do apologize if this is something very basic. I have searched the documentation and couldn't find any help for this.

Thanks for any help!
Warren

[Garrett]

If these are in the Media version, then check out the following in the documents:

defaultfolder
files

defaultfolder will allow you to select the directory you need and you can use that also when using files to get a list of all the files in the directory you set with defaultfolder.

[bn]

hi warrenk,

try this, it should get you started

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on mouseUp pMouseBtnNo
    answer folder "please choose folder to get the files of"
    if it is empty then exit mouseUp
    put it into tFolderToSearch
    put the defaultfolder into tOldDefaultFolder -- to restore it later
    set the defaultfolder to tFolderToSearch
    put the files into tAllFiles -- gives you all the files of the folder
    -- you may want to filter the files for the type you want; look up filter with or filter without
    --filter tAllFiles without ".*"  -- on a mac there are invisible files that start with a dot
    --filter tAllFiles with "*.rev" -- to just get rev stacks
    --filter tAllFiles with "*.pdf" -- to just get pdfs
    set the defaultfolder to tOldDefaultFolder -- restore the default folder, not necessary but nice
    put 0 into tSoMany -- just in case there are none
    put the number of lines of tAllFiles into tSoMany
    put "there are " & tSoMany & " files" & return & "these are the files: " & return & tAllFiles
end mouseUp

regards
bernd

[warrenk]

Thanks Bernd...thats exactly what I was looking for!

Much appreciately!!!!
Warren