I'm a new user of AppleScript and I try to settle an script to backup a folder from my mac to a folder on a usb stick.
I started to create this script but it doesn't work.
tell application "Finder"
duplicate folder "/Users/alex/Desktop/test/" to "/Volumes/myusb/test/" replacing yes
end tell
Thanks for you help.
This should work:
set SourceFolder to POSIX file "/Users/alex/Desktop/test/"
set TargetFolder to POSIX file "/Volumes/myusb/"
tell application "Finder"
if exists SourceFolder then
try
duplicate SourceFolder to TargetFolder replacing yes
on error the error_message number the error_number
display dialog "Error: " & the error_number & ". " & the error_message buttons {"OK"} default button 1
end try
end if
end tell
("POSIX file" is from the "StandardAdditions")
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could anyone tell me how I can create a simple installer of Kexts using AppleScrit in Xcode?
I've tried the following:
on installKext:sender
choose file
copy the result to thisFile
copy the (info for thisFile) to fileInfo
copy the name extension of the fileInfo to nameExtension
copy the file type of the fileInfo to filetype
tell application "Finder"
if the filetype is "Kext" or ¬
the nameExtension is "Kext" then
move thisFile to folder "Extensions" of folder "Library" of folder "System" of startup disk
end if
end tell
end installKext:
I Have this errors:
installKext:]: Not authorized to send Apple events to Finder. (error
-1743)
Error Domain=PlugInKit Code=13 "query cancelled"
UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=query cancelled}
You cannot move files with the Finder into folders which belong to the system.
You need root privileges for example with do shell script .... with administrator privileges
on installKext:sender
set theFile to choose file
tell application "System Events"
set {name extension:nameExtension, file type:fileType} to theFile
end tell
if fileType is "Kext" or nameExtension is "Kext" then
do shell script "mv " & quoted form of POSIX path of theFile & space & "/System/Library/Extensions/" with administrator privileges
end if
end installKext:
You must add the following in info.plist:
now everything works like a charm.
With the help of some users on this form I was able to create this script below which lets you choose a folder then choose which folders within the folder you want to rsync into a OneDrive Backup Folder.
Basically were migrating from a on site network storage to OneDrive for Business and want to create a script that as easy as possible for our users.
The issue I have is I dont want the users to be able to choose the original folder, I want to set the variable up front.
In the script I use:
set theFolder to (choose folder with prompt "Please Choose The Root of Your H Drive Or The Folder That Looks Like: " & userName & "$")
If I use:
set theFolder to "/Volumes/MYERSMI5$/"
I get "Can't Get every file of said folder" error message.
How Do I set the theFolder for this script ahead of time instead of asking the user to pick the folder?
set OuserName to do shell script "whoami"
set userName to do shell script "echo " & OuserName & " | tr a-z A-Z"
tell application "Finder"
if not (disk userName exists) then
mount volume "SMB Server/" & userName & "$"
end if
delay 2
set theDialogText to "
- Mac H-Drive Migration Tool -
This Application Will Migrate a Copy of Your H Drive Data
to your OneDrive for Buisness Folder Locally on Your Mac
Migration Backup Location:
/Users/" & OuserName & "/OneDrive Folder/H-Drive Migration Backup
** Important **
In the Next Window Please Choose
The Root Folder of Your H Drive
The Drive Label Should Look Like: " & userName & "$"
display dialog theDialogText
set theFolder to (choose folder with prompt "Please Choose The Root of Your H Drive Or The Folder That Looks Like: " & userName & "$")
do shell script "mkdir -p ~/'OneDrive Folder'/'H-Drive Migration Backup'"
set HDriveBackupFolder to ((path to home folder as text) & "OneDrive Folder:H-Drive Migration Backup")
set AppName to "OneDrive.app"
tell application "Finder" to set Answer_ to exists application file ((path to applications folder as string) & AppName)
if Answer_ is false then
beep
beep
beep
beep
beep
end if
delay 1.5
tell application "Finder"
activate
set theFolderNames to name of folders of theFolder
set theChosenNames to (choose from list theFolderNames with prompt "Choose Which Folders to Backup, Please Hold Down The ⌘ Key To Choose Multiple Folders " with multiple selections allowed)
if (theChosenNames is false) then return
set HDriveBackupFolder to ((path to home folder as text) & "OneDrive Folder:H-Drive Migration Backup")
end tell
repeat with thisName in theChosenNames
tell application "Terminal"
do script ("rsync -avpz --delete " & (quoted form of POSIX path of ((theFolder as text) & thisName)) & space & (quoted form of POSIX path of HDriveBackupFolder)
end tell
end repeat
end tell
You asked:
"How Do I set the theFolder for this script ahead of time instead of asking the user to pick the folder?"
Also, just prior to that, you said:
If I use:
set theFolder to "/Volumes/MYERSMI5$/"
I get "Can't Get every file of said folder" error message.
First, lets address setting the value of the theFolder variable. It should be as follows:
set theFolder to POSIX file "/Volumes/MYERSMI5$/"
I assume the error is being thrown at the following point in the code:
tell application "Finder"
activate
set theFolderNames to name of folders of theFolder
Change set theFolderNames to name of folders of theFolder to:
set theFolderNames to name of folders of container theFolder
To test this, I mounted a volume named MYERSMI5$ at /Volumes/ and created some folders within /Volumes/MYERSMI5$/. Then running the following code:
set theFolder to POSIX file "/Volumes/MYERSMI5$/"
tell application "Finder"
activate
set theFolderNames to name of folders of container theFolder
set theChosenNames to (choose from list theFolderNames with prompt "Choose Which Folders to Backup, Please Hold Down The ⌘ Key To Choose Multiple Folders " with multiple selections allowed)
if (theChosenNames is false) then return
end tell
It produced a list box, containing the names of the folders I created at that location, to choose from.
I did not try to run the entire block of code you included in your question, so if you're having other issues, you'll need to follow up after making the changes mentioned in my answer. There are good reasons why questions involving debugging code should conform to How to create a Minimal, Complete,and Verifiable example.
You may also want to review the Variables and Properties section in the AppleScript Language Guide.
I have folders containing applications. I want to be able to select the folder with an apple script, and have the script go through each app file in that directory, changing the icons for me.
I want to have the icon set from an image stored in the script directory.
I'd really appreciate any help because I've been trying to make this work for a while. This is my progress so far:
property appcurrentCount : 0
on run
set theFolder to (choose folder with prompt "Select the start folder")
doSomethingWith(theFolder)
end run
on doSomethingWith(aFolder)
tell application "Finder"
set subApps to every file of aFolder
repeat with eachFolder in subApps
-- replace icon here somehow
end repeat
end tell
display dialog "Count is now " & appcurrentCount & "."
end doSomethingWith
The script bellow does now what you want. As explained before, your icon file must be type icns. I now add this filter directly in the choose file command.
The selected icon will now replace ALL icons already in each Contents/Resources folder of all applications in the selected folder.
The replacement will be done preserving the name of the icns already in place.
Warning : there is no 'undo' command. your old icons are overwritten !!
set Myicon to choose file with prompt "Select Icns to be copied in every Application of the folder" of type "com.apple.icns"
set MyFolder to choose folder with prompt "Select the folder with all applications to be changed"
set Source to POSIX path of Myicon -- convert path to unix form
tell application "Finder"
set MyApps to every item of MyFolder whose name extension is "app"
display dialog "count apps=" & count of MyApps
repeat with anAps in MyApps -- loop for each App
set IcnFolder to ((anAps as string) & ":Contents:Resources:") as alias
set MyIcns to (every item of IcnFolder whose name extension is "icns")
display dialog "count of icn in " & alaps & " = " & (count of MyIcns)
repeat with oneIcon in MyIcns -- loop for each icns
set Destination to POSIX path of (oneIcon as string)
try
do shell script "cp " & (quoted form of Source) & " " & (quoted form of Destination)
end try
end repeat -- loop for each icns
end repeat -- loop for each App
end tell
This is the script i am trying to make
i am trying to make a script to see if Fido_Data exsists on my desktop with a if and else statement but for some reason it just gets the error Finder got an error: AppleEvent handler failed.
tell application "Finder"
if exists folder [homePath & "Desktop/Fido_Data"] then
set FidoFolderExists to "yes"
else
display dialog homePath & "Desktop/"
make new folder at [homePath & "Desktop/"] with properties {name:"Fido_Data"}
end if
end tell
Try:
tell application "Finder"
if exists folder ((path to desktop as text) & "Fido_Data") then
set FidoFolderExists to "yes"
else
display dialog (path to desktop as text)
make new folder at (path to desktop) with properties {name:"Fido_Data"}
end if
end tell
I got stumbled across intermittent cases of finder getting file existence wrong in 10.10.5. I suggest:
-- ------------------------------------------------------
(*
Philip Regan
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3469389/applescript-testing-for-file-existence
*)
on fileExists(theFile) -- (String) as Boolean
tell application "System Events"
if exists file theFile then
return true
else
return false
end if
end tell
end fileExists
I've been trying to get System Events to duplicate files in AppleScript and I've been failing :) I eventually always get the error "error "Files can not be copied." number -1717". So I changed my tactics and tried using the Finder to make sure what i was trying to do was correct. Here is the code that works:
tell application "System Events"
set desktopFolder to (path to desktop folder) as string
set fullPath to desktopFolder & "Temp Export From DO"
set theDOEntries to every file of folder "/Users/jkratz/Dropbox/Apps/Day One/Journal.dayone/entries" whose name extension is "doentry"
repeat with DOEntry in theDOEntries
set source to path of DOEntry
log "Source file: " & source
set destination to fullPath as string
log "Destination folder: " & destination
tell application "Finder"
duplicate file source to folder destination with replacing
end tell
end repeat
end tell
If I remove that last tell, so that it uses System Events, I get the same error noted above. The dictionary for System Events standard suite has a "duplicate" command so I'm not sure what is going on here. Also, "Learning AppleScript, 3rd ed" from APress notes:
"One particularly annoying omission in System Events is that it can’t yet duplicate files and folders; if you need to do this, the Finder is your best bet."
The 3rd edition is from 2010. It would seem that even in Mountain Lion this is still true. Can anyone confirm this? The 1717 error number lists everywhere else as a handler error and i'm not using handlers.
Unfortunately, you cannot duplicate files using System Events - you have to use the Finder. Even in the answer provided by adayzdone, System Events is not actually handling the duplication.
This looks like it's working (because it's inside a System Events tell block)...
tell application "System Events"
duplicate myFile to myFolder
end tell
...but if you inspect the event log you'll see that the Finder is actually performing the duplication. Behind the scenes, you are passing two Finder objects to System Events. System Events doesn't know how to handle Finder objects, so execution is passed to the objects' owner, the Finder, which executes the command.
For file duplication in AppleScript, you are unfortunately limited to using the Finder or the command line via do shell script.
Try:
tell application "Finder" to set desktopFolder to (path to desktop folder as text) & "Temp Export From DO" as alias
tell application "System Events" to set theDOEntries to every file of folder "/Users/jkratz/Dropbox/Apps/Day One/Journal.dayone/entries" whose name extension is "doentry"
repeat with DOEntry in theDOEntries
log "Source file: " & DOEntry
log "Destination folder: " & desktopFolder
tell application "Finder" to duplicate file DOEntry to desktopFolder with replacing
end repeat
If you don't need to log the values you can simply:
tell application "Finder" to set desktopFolder to (path to desktop folder as text) & "Temp Export From DO" as alias
tell application "System Events" to set theDOEntries to every file of folder "/Users/jkratz/Dropbox/Apps/Day One/Journal.dayone/entries" whose name extension is "doentry"
tell application "Finder" to duplicate theDOEntries to desktopFolder with replacing
Or:
set desktopFolder to quoted form of (POSIX path of (path to desktop folder as text) & "Temp Export From DO")
do shell script "find '/Users/jkratz/Dropbox/Apps/Day One/Journal.dayone/entries' -name \"*.doentry\" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -I {} cp -a {} " & desktopFolder
Getting back to your question, the duplicate commands creates duplicates of Finder items. You can use System Events to duplicate Finder items like this:
tell application "Finder"
set myFile to file ((path to desktop as text) & "Test File.txt")
set myFolder to folder ((path to desktop as text) & "Test Folder")
end tell
tell application "System Events"
duplicate myFile to myFolder
end tell