Am writing Applescript to take a list of folders, compress them to .zip files, and transfer the spotlight comment and label from the folder to the new file.
Thank you to CRGreen for the suggestion. Here is the final script.
on run {input, parameters}
tell application "Finder"
set theItems to selection
repeat with i from 1 to (count of theItems)
set theItem to (item i of theItems) as alias
set itemPath to quoted form of POSIX path of theItem
set theParent to POSIX path of (container of theItem as alias)
set fileName to theParent & (name of theItem) & ".zip"
set zipFile to quoted form of fileName
do shell script "zip -jr " & zipFile & " " & itemPath
do shell script "setfile -a E " & zipFile
set newItem to POSIX file fileName as alias
set comment of newItem to (get comment of theItem)
set label index of newItem to (get label index of theItem)
set oldFolder to quoted form of (theParent & name of theItem)
do shell script "rm -rf " & oldFolder
end repeat
end tell
return input
end run
The magic of parentheses! (and alias coercion):
set comment of ((POSIX file newItem) as alias) to theComment
set label index of ((POSIX file newItem) as alias) to theLabel
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Essentially i'm looking for an applescript that allow me to order the massive 50.000 files by creating folders that have just the first word of the files, ignoring the rest of the filename after the first space.
For eaxmple the 50.000 files are named like this:
- amazingfrog -shootingbase.jpg
- frog 2sHDn1_9fFs12s.jpg
- frog 29adjjdd39939.mov
- Horse IUS39aosdja.mov
- horse 282131888.jpg
- HORSE.jpg
And so on.....
- I would like to be like this:
- amazingfrog
-amazingfrog -shootingbase.jpg
- frog
-frog 2sHDn1_9fFs12s.jpg
-frog 29adjjdd39939.mov
- horse
-horse IUS39aosdja.mov
-horse 282131888.jpg
-horse.gif
And so on....
On the internet i came across with the following script:
set chosenFolder to (choose folder)
tell application "Finder" to set fileList to files of chosenFolder
repeat with aFile in fileList
set {name:Nm, name extension:Ex} to info for (aFile as alias)
if Ex is missing value then set Ex to ""
if Ex is not "" then set Nm to text 1 thru ((count Nm) - (count Ex) - 1) of Nm
set dateFolder to text 1 thru 15 of Nm
set sourceFile to quoted form of POSIX path of (aFile as text)
set destinationFile to quoted form of (POSIX path of chosenFolder & dateFolder & "/" & name of aFile)
do shell script "ditto " & sourceFile & space & destinationFile
do shell script "rm " & sourceFile
end repeat
The only problem is that i have to choose in the "text 1 thru" the numbers of the letters i want to keep. And unfortunately the first word of the filenames have different length...
Could be possible to modify this script to my needed? or do you have any other suggestions?
Thanks in advance for any reply!!
I recommend to use text item delimiters to extract the first part of the file name
set chosenFolder to (choose folder)
tell application "Finder" to set fileList to files of chosenFolder
set TID to text item delimiters
set text item delimiters to space
repeat with aFile in fileList
set fileName to name of aFile
set textItems to text items of fileName
if (count textItems) = 1 then
set fileExtension to name extension of aFile
set folderName to text 1 thru ((get offset of "." & fileExtension in fileName) - 1) of fileName
else
set folderName to first item of textItems
end if
set sourceFile to quoted form of POSIX path of (aFile as text)
set destinationFile to quoted form of (POSIX path of chosenFolder & folderName & "/" & fileName)
do shell script "ditto " & sourceFile & space & destinationFile
do shell script "rm " & sourceFile
end repeat
set text item delimiters to TID
I am trying to copy a folder on a Google Team Drive to another location, but my script keeps getting an error. The full script is below.
I basically want to copy an Excel file "Google Drive:Team Drives:Company -Sync Folder:0000-1_E.xlsx" to a location that is defined by the script.
The offending line is:
duplicate file "Google Drive:Team Drives:Company -Sync Folder:0000-1_E.xlsx" of startup disk to folder (jobNum & " Documents") of newJobFolder
Any help?
global jobNum
global newJobFolder
set jobNum to text returned of (display dialog "Enter a job number:" default answer "")
set jobName to text returned of (display dialog "Enter a job name:" default answer "")
set jobMgr to text returned of (display dialog "Enter account manager email:" default answer "")
set folderpath to (choose folder with prompt "Select client folder")
set newJobFolder to my newFold(jobNum, jobName, folderpath, jobMgr)
on newFold(theNumber, theName, thefolder, jobMgr)
set emailAddress to jobMgr
set emailSubject to theNumber & " -" & theName
set bodyText to ""
set emailLinkFileName to theNumber & " -" & theName
set subNameList to {"Designs", "Documents", "Received"}
set itemCount to count of subNameList
set linkBody to "mailto:" & emailAddress & "?subject=" & my replace_chars(emailSubject, " ", "%20") & "&body=" & my replace_chars(bodyText, " ", "%20")
tell application "Finder"
set newJobFolder to (make new folder at thefolder with properties ¬
{name:theNumber & " " & theName})
repeat with i from 1 to itemCount
set aSubFolder to make new folder at newJobFolder with properties {name:jobNum & " " & item i of subNameList}
set theMailto to make new internet location file to linkBody at aSubFolder with properties {name:emailLinkFileName, name extension:"mailloc"}
set the name extension of theMailto to "mailloc"
end repeat
duplicate file "Google Drive:Team Drives:Company -Sync Folder:0000-1_E.xlsx" of startup disk to folder (jobNum & " Documents") of newJobFolder
set name of the result to jobNum & " E.xlsx"
set theMailto to make new internet location file to linkBody at newJobFolder with properties {name:emailLinkFileName, name extension:"mailloc"}
set the name extension of theMailto to "mailloc"
end tell
end newFold
-- Generic find and replace functionality
on replace_chars(this_text, search_string, replacement_string)
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to the search_string
set the item_list to every text item of this_text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to the replacement_string
set this_text to the item_list as string
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
return this_text
end replace_chars
Assuming that your "Google Drive" folder resides directly in your home folder...
Try changing this...
duplicate file "Google Drive:Team Drives:Company -Sync Folder:0000-1_E.xlsx" of startup disk to folder (jobNum & " Documents") of newJobFolder
To this...
set theFile to (path to home folder as text) & "Google Drive:Team Drives:Company -Sync Folder:0000-1_E.xlsx"
duplicate file theFile to folder (jobNum & " Documents") of newJobFolder
And if that does not work, You can try this approach...
set theFile to (choose file) as alias as text
duplicate file theFile to folder (jobNum & " Documents") of newJobFolder
Then after you run it once, comment out the choose file command.
If you're using Google Drive File Stream, which is the one for businesses, the mounted drive can be reached through the user folder, the path is something like this:
"/Users/nameofuser/Google Drive File Stream/My Drive/Companyfolder"
Use this format to get to the folders and it should work, that's what I do.
Working on a script that downloads files and places them in a folder for for automated installation. This is the first time I've created an "on" sub-routine and I'm having issues with resolving the path to check if the file exists. The process uses a Terminal window to monitor the download status.
set theContentPath to POSIX path of (choose folder)
set toInstall to (theContentPath & "ToInstall/")
set inStalled to (theContentPath & "Installed/")
set theTemp to (theContentPath & "theTemp/")
do shell script "mkdir -p " & quoted form of toInstall
do shell script "mkdir -p " & quoted form of inStalled
do shell script "mkdir -p " & quoted form of theTemp
set theList to {"http://url1.pkg",
"http://url2.pkg",
"http://url3.pkg",
"http://url4.pkg",
"http://url5.pkg",
"http://url6.pkg"}
repeat with x from 1 to (count theList)
--display dialog item x of theList
set thisOne to item x of theList
getFileIfNeeded(thisOne, toInstall, theTemp)
end repeat
on getFileIfNeeded(theFileToGet, whereToSave, tempFiles)
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "/"
set theItems to text items of theFileToGet
set theFile to item 5 of theItems
set theFileCheck to whereToSave & theFile
set theURL to quoted form of theFileToGet
tell application "Finder"
if not (exists file theFileCheck) then
tell application "Terminal"
if (count of windows) is 0 then
activate
end if
do script "cd " & quoted form of tempFiles & " ; curl -O " & theURL in front window
do script "mv " & quoted form of tempFiles & "*.pkg " & quoted form of whereToSave in front window
end tell
end if
end tell
end getFileIfNeeded
Tried adding the following set theFileCheck2 to (POSIX file theFileCheck) as string but the results are not what I expected as the file still get's downloaded.
Here's the routine with my attempt to get the path right.
on getFileIfNeeded(theFileToGet, whereToSave, tempFiles)
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "/"
set theItems to text items of theFileToGet
set theFile to item 5 of theItems
set theFileCheck to whereToSave & theFile
set theURL to quoted form of theFileToGet
tell application "Finder"
set theFileCheck2 to (POSIX file theFileCheck) as string
if not (exists file theFileCheck2) then
tell application "Terminal"
if (count of windows) is 0 then
activate
end if
do script "cd " & quoted form of tempFiles & " ; curl -O " & theURL in front window
do script "mv " & quoted form of tempFiles & "*.pkg " & quoted form of whereToSave in front window
end tell
end if
end tell
end getFileIfNeeded
This should fix it.
It targets "System Events" instead of "Finder", a lot of the functionality previously in the Finders dictionary has been shifted to System Events over the last several years.
Also i simplified the part that extracts theFile, you can use the 'last' keyword in this case instead of a hard coded number.
on getFileIfNeeded(theFileToGet, whereToSave, tempFiles)
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "/"
set theFile to the last text item of theFileToGet
set theFileCheck to whereToSave & theFile
set theURL to quoted form of theFileToGet
tell application "System Events"
if not (exists file theFileCheck) then
tell application "Terminal"
if (count of windows) is 0 then
activate
end if
do script "cd " & quoted form of tempFiles & " ; curl -O " & theURL in front window
do script "mv " & quoted form of tempFiles & "*.pkg " & quoted form of whereToSave in front window
end tell
end if
end tell
end getFileIfNeeded
I have multiple folders with sub folders that have files in them that need to be labeled with their parent folder+grandparent folder name.
i.e. Folder 1>Folder 2>File.jpg needs to be renamed to Folder_1_Folder_2_File.jpg
I was able to find a script that somewhat does it, and have been trying to reverse engineer it, but am not having any luck. The script below presents two challenges, 1) It includes the entire path from the root directory, and two, it deletes the name of the file, therefore only allowing one file to be renamed before it errors out. I know that the problem is that the script is renaming the entire file, I just don't know how to proceed.
tell application "Finder"
set a to every folder of (choose folder)
repeat with aa in a
set Base_Name to my MakeBase(aa as string)
set all_files to (every file in aa)
repeat with ff in all_files
set ff's name to (Base_Name & "." & (ff's name extension))
end repeat
end repeat
end tell
to MakeBase(txt)
set astid to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ":"
set new_Name_Raw to every text item of txt
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "_"
set final_Name to every text item of new_Name_Raw as text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to astid
return final_Name
end MakeBase
Thank you!
tell application "Finder"
repeat with theItem in (the selection as list)
set theItem's name to (theItem's container's container's name) & "_" & (theItem's container's name) & "_" & (theItem's name)
end repeat
end tell
If you want to learn how AppleScript can work with an app, look through the app's dictionary of AppleScript commands (AppleScript Editor > File > Open Dictionary...).
Edit 1
Here's a version in which you select the "grandparent folder" containing folders containing the items to rename:
tell application "Finder"
set itemsToRename to {}
set selectedFolders to (the selection as list)
repeat with selectedFolder in selectedFolders
set childFolders to every item of selectedFolder
repeat with childFolder in childFolders
set grandchildItems to every item of childFolder
set itemsToRename to itemsToRename & grandchildItems
end repeat
end repeat
repeat with theItem in itemsToRename
set theItem's name to (theItem's container's container's name) & "_" & (theItem's container's name) & "_" & (theItem's name)
end repeat
end tell
Try:
set myFolder to do shell script "sed 's/\\/$//' <<< " & quoted form of POSIX path of (choose folder)
set myFiles to paragraphs of (do shell script "find " & quoted form of myFolder & " \\! -name \".*\" -type f -maxdepth 2 -mindepth 2")
repeat with aFile in myFiles
tell application "System Events" to set file aFile's name to (do shell script "sed 's/.*\\/\\([^/]*\\)\\/\\([^/]*\\)\\/\\([^/]*$\\)/\\1_\\2_\\3/' <<< " & quoted form of aFile)
end repeat
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I want to write an apple-script which collect the color profile of an image.. can anyone please help me out how to do this? I've no idea!!
Thanks in advance.
I like using ExifTool by Phil Harvey to extract metadata. Here is a service I wrote to access the metadata quickly.
on run {input, parameters}
-- creates a metadata folder in the Documents folder to store results
set thePath to POSIX path of (path to documents folder) & "metadata" & "/"
do shell script "mkdir -p " & quoted form of POSIX path of thePath
set {inputFiles, outputFiles} to {{}, {}}
repeat with anItem in input
set end of inputFiles to quoted form of POSIX path of (anItem as text)
tell application "Finder" to set {name:fileName, name extension:nameExtension} to anItem
set baseName to text 1 thru ((get offset of "." & nameExtension in fileName) - 1) of fileName
set end of outputFiles to quoted form of (thePath & baseName & ".txt")
end repeat
set {TID, text item delimiters} to {text item delimiters, space}
set {inputFiles, outputFiles} to {(inputFiles as text), (outputFiles as text)}
set text item delimiters to TID
do shell script "exiftool -a " & inputFiles & " -w " & quoted form of (thePath & "%f.txt" as text) & "; open " & outputFiles
end run