Re: duplicate one file
Re: duplicate one file
- Subject: Re: duplicate one file
- From: Mirko <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 12:15:28 +0200
i have try the script of Emmanuel and Malcolm but i don't work...i get
syntaxe error....
thanks for help...
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De : Emmanuel <email@hidden>
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Date : Sat, 3 Aug 2002 11:18:23 +0200
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@ : Mirko <email@hidden>, applescript <email@hidden>
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Objet : Re: duplicate one file
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At 9:32 AM +0200 3/8/02, Mirko wrote:
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> what i need is just the possibility to create thousand of copy of the same
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Not sure what your problem is.
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duplicating files is the Finder's job. If you have not already, you should
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have a look at the Finder's dictionary. Did you try simply:
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set theFile to alias "Macintosh HD:myfile.htm"
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repeat 1000 times
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tell application "Finder" to duplicate theFile
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end
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A more sophisticated script would keep track in a list of the references of
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the duplicated files, so that renaming them would be easier.
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set _template to read (choose file {})
set _location to (choose folder {}) as string
repeat with i from 1000 to 2000
set fname to ("doc" & i & ".html")
set fRef to open for access file (_location & fname) with write
permission
write _template to fRef
close access fRef
end repeat
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