Re: Copy/Move a file in X
Re: Copy/Move a file in X
- Subject: Re: Copy/Move a file in X
- From: Timothy Bates <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 12:32:03 +1100
On 1/12/01 7:53 AM, "Andrew Laurence" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Hi all,
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A painfully simple question... In Mac OS X, how do you copy/move a
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file with AppleScript? The Finder's 'move' command yields a error
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type -15267, and Jons Commands isn't ported yet.
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Any suggestions from the collective consciousness?
I have not been assimilated, but here is a script I use to clean up my
desktop, moving files with nonunique names into a cleanup folder
tell application "Finder"
set theFiles to (every file of folder (path to desktop folder) whose
file type is "PDF ") as alias list
repeat with aFile in theFiles
-- set aFile to aFile as alias
set destination to alias "Cortex:Users:tim:Desktop:papers:"
my uniqueName(aFile, destination)
--move aFile to folder "destination"
end repeat
end tell
on uniqueName(aFile, destination)
tell application "Finder"
set oldname to name of aFile
set n to 1
repeat while (exists file oldname of folder destination)
set oldname to "" & n & oldname
set n to n + 1
end repeat
set name of aFile to oldname
move file aFile to folder destination
end tell
end uniqueName