I have folders in folders in folders full of music I wanted to make it easy for me by putting all the music files from the same artist in the same folder but this would take days doing it manually...
Expl: All the Elvis music goes into the Elvis folder can be created by me or with a script (creating a folder is easy) and this process goes on for the rest of my music files with other artist...
I don't know if it is possible to use the file details "artist tab" to sort this?
I Tried the Move-Item but no succes
any advice?
greetings
This seems to not work, but it does a lot of the work that you are looking for. http://www.faqforge.com/windows/windows-powershell-script-to-sort-music-from-folder-to-library/
i use this module and dll for that sort of work:
http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/tobias/archive/2011/01/25/reading-and-writing-tags-to-videos-and-music.aspx
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I have close to zero AppleScript experience and very little Automator experience too, so please bear this in mind. What I'm asking might be REALLY obvious to you, but I'm somewhat stuck.
I want to create a workflow (saved as an App) where I can drag a folder and it does a few things:
Copies the source folder
Sets some background colors on the copied folders
Deletes any folders that are empty
I found a script that does the deletion, but it was set to reference a specific folder. I want it to reference the folder that I have just copied:
tell application "Finder"
set the_items to every folder of entire contents of folder "$CopiedFolderHere"
...
Image of the Workflow is here
I would really appreciate it if someone can tell me what I need to tweak in the script to allow it to make the deletions on the newly-copied folder.
Thanks :)
So am kind of new to using command lines in Terminal and stuff. However, I was interested if someone could help me with this thing. I would prefer if somebody with Terminal knowledge can help, but Command Prompt is good as well.
I have a folder with name say Videos and inside this folder I have multiple files: one mp4, one ppt, one pdf, and one doc. The video name is say "Movieking1-1" and all other file types have name as "sample".
Now what I would like is a set of commands which searches for all the extensions like *.pdf and *.docs in the folder and give it the name of that as the one for the .mp4 and add -yt So if my folder was like this:
Movieking1-1.mp4
sample.docx
sample.pdf
The command should work and change the name for the file in that folder as
Movieking1-1.mp4
Movieking1-1-transcript.docx
Movieking1-1-transcript.pdf
There are no other docs or pdfs either in the same folder.
I am asking help because i have to do this for more than 100 folders.
Any help is appreciated
Thanks in advances
I am working on a script that will move the entire contents of a folder, including all subfolders and the files within, to another folder when I mount my bak drive.
Just for testing I wrote a simple script to check how I can do this (I don't really know AppleScript, so it's learn as I go), I used the following cmd in my applescript:
move every file of entire contents of folder "Lion:Users:dbooster:desktop:outbox" to "Lion:Users:booster:desktop:file"
So my test, as you can see is moving everything within a folder on my desktop called "outbox" into a folder called "file" on my desktop.
At first I thought it worked perfectly, but then I tried to put another folder within "outbox". What I discovered is this script moves all the files within that subfolder in "outbox", but it doesn't move the subfolder itself.
That is to say, if I test with outbox/stuff/file1.txt and run the script, the result is file/file1.txt, NOT file/stuff/file1.txt which is what I would expect.
Uhm... This seems like it should be easier than I am finding it. But I've been searching google for the past hour and can't come up with anything (maybe I'm searching for the wrong thing?) Any help would be appreciated -- thanks in advance.
Try:
tell application "Finder" to move entire contents of folder "Lion:Users:dbooster:desktop:outbox" to folder "Lion:Users:booster:desktop:file"
At least I finished developing a new windows gadget.
I zipped it and removed the ".zip", so that it's a valid ".gadget"-file now.
When I execute this file the install-dialog pops up, i click "install" but nothing happens.. Any suggestions? When i copy the extracted (not zipped) Windows gadget into "C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets", I can use it successfully, but the way I descriped before isn't possible..
Sounds like you may have zipped up one folder too many.
If you zipped up "gadget_name.gadget" then, if you executed this it would not install.
You need to go into the gadget.gadget folder and zip up them files. For example in that folder you may have 2 folder labeled EN-US and Images. you need to zip them up from there and when save them as "gadget_name.gadget", change the extension from .zip to .gadget.
It may be a late reply but it might be helpful.
Check there are no empty folders in your gadget zip.
Also ensure you have the correct Directory structure Eg,
mygadget.gadget\gadget.xml
Not
mygadget.gadget\mygadget\gadget.xml
If you could post the gadget zip file it could also be helpful.
Kind of a Admin question - I know.
Here's the thing.
The OS has this deep, strange assumsion that a user wants all there pictures in one folder, all there doc files in another folder - etc. Saveing files based on file type - not the folder in which it was opened.
I, like many business/dev users have my drive devided into folders based on 'projects'.
All 'SmithProject' images goes in SmithProject, All JonesProject Images goes in JoneProject.
Why do I spend so much time fighting the OS when it wants to save all files into a folder based on file type? (No - windows - I don't want it in the pictures folder)
Is there not some simple way / setting to define how this works?
I figure, I loose 1-2 hours a week - just because i have to nav back to the same folder, again & again & again.
Any Pluggin?
Anything?
Thanks
Without changing special folders locations (My Documents, etc) it could be hard to achieve. Normally in app, when You call OpenFileDialog You can specify where to start (f.ex: always c:\, last opened folder, special folder) and there is no power in the universe to change this.