.type on PC side is showing ???? for all of .type

[bagonterman]

var poot=Folder("/eDesignArchive/eExtract/"+myJnum+mySFolder);
poot=Folder(poot.fsName);
var boot=poot.getFiles();
myMatches=[];
myArchive=[];
    for (var j = 0; j < boot.length; j++) {
       if(boot.type!="????"){ myArchive.push(boot.name);}
        for ( i = 0; i < count; i++ ) {
            pageImage =doc.visibleThumbnails.name;
          if((pageImage.match ( boot.name))){  myMatches.push(boot.name);}
     }
 };

I am using this on the mac side and it returns all the different file types. I am trying to exclude  a database file. On the mac I get different file types like 8bps or JPEG or TIFF. All the files are turning up ???? on pc. Not sure why. Any ideas? At first I thought my array was empty but I know now that its ok.

[Muppet Mark]

If you read the Scripting Guide you will see that this is a feature of the Mac OS and correctly returns ???? on windows…

[Michael_L_Hale]

Windows doesn't use the type property. The file type is determined by the file extension. One reason a file without an extension is almost useless on Windows. So I think you need to check both type and extension matches to exclude.

[bagonterman]

I ended up checking the file extention on the pc side. That was the only way I could get it to work. Thanks for your help.

[Muppet Mark]

On the Mac side an open getFiles() will return the OS hidden files too… You can exclude these with regular expression they start with a dot. Or you could loop looking for the hidden property…

#target bridge
var inFolder = Folder( Folder.desktop + '/Testing' );
var fileList = inFolder.getFiles();
alert( fileList.join( '\r' ) )
for ( var i = 0; i < fileList.length; i++ ) {
    alert( fileList.hidden );
};

[bagonterman]

I just looked at the file name and checked for any .db files because that is the only hidden file i am running into. I am counting the rest.

poot=Folder(poot.fsName);
var boot=poot.getFiles();
myMatches=[];
myArchive=[];
    for (var j = 0; j < boot.length; j++) {
        pcName=boot.name.split(".").pop();
       if(pcName!="db"){ myArchive.push(boot.name);}
        for ( i = 0; i < count; i++ ) {
            pageImage =doc.visibleThumbnails.name;
          if((pageImage.match ( boot.name))){  myMatches.push(boot.name);}
     }
 };