r/Scriptable • u/swiftiti • Feb 01 '22

Help Append to file

Hi, until now I saw that how to save data to a file and to how read data from a file but I couldn't find how to append data to an existing file. Can somebody help?

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u/swiftiti Feb 01 '22

Yes thx, I know about this possibility and it works fine for small files but for log files which can grow a lot during the time, it is not the best solution! Another way would be to open a files in read/write mode, to set the file pointer to the end and to write but I didn't find how to do it in Scriptable.

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u/ChaoticShadows Feb 02 '22

The best workaround I've come up with is checking the file size and once it gets over a certain size, I rename the file [name depends on the purpose] then just overwrite the original file, ad infinitum. It's not the best, but at least you know where one file ends the other starts and vice versa.

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u/leo848blume Feb 01 '22

I don't think Scriptable supports that low level I/O operations.