[DUG] Grouping files

[Jeremy Coulter]

there must have been some large traffic happening on our network because 
now, its fast !
dont you HATE that !!

Jeremy

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert martin <rob at wildsoft.co.nz>
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List <delphi at ns3.123.co.nz>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:20:28 +1200
Subject: Re: [DUG] Grouping files

> Hi
> 
> Is a TSearchRec really that slow?  I have always thought it was fine to
> open a Tsearchrec and do a FindNext until I got to the right file.  We 
> have a recursive routine that does this to search an entire HDD for 
> certain files and it seems quick (it takes about the same amount of
> time 
> as doing a windows find on the entire hdd). 
> 
> If I was doing it, I go through all files and add the ones within the 
> valid date range to a StringList for further processing.
> 
> Rob Martin
> Software Engineer
> 
> phone +64 03 377 0495
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> 
> Wild Software Ltd
> 
> 
> 
> Jeremy Coulter wrote:
> 
> > Hi All.
> > I have been given a request that means I need to look inside some zip
> > files in an archived dir we have.
> > I only need to look at certain files within a certain file date range
> > BUT, we unfortunitly have over 7700 files in this dir !!!! I know, I 
> > know....but this is only a couple of mnths worth of files ! so we 
> > kinda have to live with.
> >  
> > Is there a way to "Group" files togeither so that when I do a 
> > TSearchRec search, the files are in decending order of date?
> > Then, I can look at the file date and if its not within the range, I 
> > can stop the searchrec.....I hope you understand what I mean.
> >  
> > I thought about loading the files into an array, and sorting them on 
> > date then getting rid of the ones I dont need or as it loops thru, 
> > just ignore the ones I dont want, but this is just as slow as doing a
> > SearchRec.
> >  
> > anyone got any ideas?
> >  
> > Jeremy
> >
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