Memory Error in Bridge while running a script with multiple moveTo()'s.

Don't do that!

$.sleep() doesn't "sleep". ExtendScript is not multi-threaded. $.sleep just waits on the $.sleep() command to execute. It actually blocks all processing rather than free up the processor to do things like garbage collection.

First try the $.gc() command. To my knowledge there is no way to track ES' memory usage.

If that doesn't work, try scheduling a task...

Let's say that you find that after 1000 moves, it takes 60 seconds for the processor to cool off:

doAThousandMoves = function() {
// execute 1000 moves
}

app.scheduleTask( "doAThousandMoves()", 60000, true );

The way I would actually code this is to scan the folder tree and create a global array that contained all of the files to be moved.

I would then move them 1 at a time, shifting them off the array. Something like this:

var mover = {}; // global object declaration
mover.init = function() {
mover.files = new Array();
// fill mover files with the file objects to be moved.
app.scheduleTask( "mover.move()", 10 );
}
mover.move = function() {
var i = 0;
while ( i++ < 1000 ) {
file = mover.files.shift();
// move file
}
if ( mover.files.length > 0 ) {
app.scheduleTask( "mover.move()", 60000 );
}
}

In fact, you should probably break this into chunks of about 10 or so at a time (you can reduce the gap between calls). Doing so will make the operation appear to be running as a background process.

Regards

Bob

Thanks, I will give that a shot. I was going to try the $.sleep(mms), but I assume the sleep stops the thread which only delays my memory issue. I will post my results. Thanks again.

> My question, is it possible in scripting to monitor your memory usage to allow a pause in the script so Bridge processing can catch up?

If it's a garbage collection issue, you should be able to replace your alert()
call with a call to $.gc() which will force the garbage collector clean up memory.

You don't want to be actually monitoring JS memory consumption from the script.

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