>In Bill's triumphant emergency intervention with FB^3, it seems >to me that a small Mac Finder buglet has floated to the surface:- > > > Then I fed PH Convert a list of the 108 references to change, > > and drag-and-dropped the source code files (700+ of them, > > about 100-150 at a time) > >Now why didn't Bill just drag and drop all 700+ onto the >PH convert icon? A assure you it's infinitely more efficient >than painfully selecting 150 at a time many times -- especially if >one must not process the same file twice. > >The bald fact is that, on drag-and-drop'ing over 500 files, >the Finder flops and does nothing (for me). The quantity of data >involved is paltry; there is really no excuse. Hm... didn't know that. The real answer, of course, is that they were in different folders by subsystem, for ease in ftping both ways. :-) Had they been all in one place, I might have found this buglet. (Or not, from what Heather said.) >The snob's answer is that Bill boobed. He should have pushed >one folder and programmed directory-indexing using >...GetCatInfo... Yep - and if I had the time between now and when I'll need V1.2, I would... but "quick and dirty" is about all I can manage at the moment. 10 PM, just getting home, feed dogs, read email, go to bed, repeat... Bill