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SkipBlock

This option will look for blocks of items that are already sorted, and will skip those blocks. This is a huge timesaver in cases where there has been only a small change in the zone, for example a single file that was added or deleted. Without this option the SortBy* fileaction would move all the items "above" the change. With this option it will not move the already sorted items and only busy itself with whatever is not sorted anymore.

  • The first NUMBER argment is the minimum number of files in a block, for the block to be skipped.
  • The second NUMBER argument is the minimum number of bytes that a block has to occupy for the block to be skipped.
  • The two arguments are logically AND'ed, in words: the block must have at least argument1 files AND at least argument2 bytes.

Syntax

SkipBlock(NUMBER , NUMBER)

Example

# Sort the files by name, but skip blocks of files that are already sorted and
# contain at least 10% of the files in the zone and at least 10% of the size of
# the zone.
SortByName(Ascending SkipBlock(ZONE220N * 0.10,ZONE222N * 0.10))