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Get Item Property

Get Item Property [ Result ; Item ; Property ]

Get Item Property gives you system information about an external file, returning information such as creation, modification, type, extension, and size.

Parameter Description
Result A target field to receive any error. Will be left empty when there is no error.
Item Path to the item (file or folder) to get inquiry property of.
Property type of information requested. One of the properties from a list: “Access Date”, “Creation Date”, “Modification Date”, “Is Hidden”, “Is Directory”, “Data Size”, “Resource Size”, “Is Locked”, “Is Alias”, “Mac Type”, “Mac Creator”, “Parent Directory Path”, “File Name”, “OS Native Path”.

Properties

The following properties are defined:

  • “Access Date” – returns Date when the object was accessed last time.
  • “Creation Date” – returns Date when the object was created.
  • “Modification Date” – returns Date when the object was last time modified.
  • “Is Hidden” – returns Boolean whether the object is invisible (True) in Finder or Windows Explorer, False otherwise.
  • “Is Directory” – returns Boolean whether the object is a folder (True) or a file (False).
  • “Is Alias” – returns Boolean whether the object is a macOS alias or Windows shortcut. If the object is a shortcut True is returned, False otherwise.
  • “Is Locked” – returns whether the object is locked and cannot be written to.
  • “Data Size” – returns size of an object in bytes, typically of a file.
  • “Resource Size” – returns size of an object’s Resource Fork, if any.
  • “Mac Type” – returns the macOS file type. This is typically a four-character identifier but since it can contain non-printable characters, an 8 hex characters are returned. If there is no Mac Type, 00000000 is returned.
  • “Mac Creator” – return the macOS file creator. This is typically a four-character identifier but since it can contain non-printable characters, an 8 hex characters are returned. If there is no Mac Type, 00000000 is returned.
  • “Parent Directory Path” – returns parent path to a filesystem path.
  • “File Name” – returns file name from a filesystem path.
  • “OS Native Path” – returns an operating system native path to a filesystem path.

Returns

This function returns content based on the type of information requested. For “Creation Date” and “Modification Date” the result is a Date. “Is Something” properties return a Boolean, “Something Size” properties return a Number, while everything else is a Text.

Examples

To get size of a file on the desktop named “wolf.jpg”:

Get Item Property [ Select; Result: MyTable::Response ; Item: “.D/wolf.jpg” ; Property: Data Size ]