Re: script to rename files - rather long, sorry
Re: script to rename files - rather long, sorry
- Subject: Re: script to rename files - rather long, sorry
- From: brian <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 01:14:34 -0400
a few other tidbits occur to me I'll send these stripped of the context of
the original post as it was rather lengthy,
Platform is OS 9.x. Plain vanilla AS preferred but extra additions ok.
all attempts to work with filtered references to accommodate less than
perfect tab delimited name lists have failed (those lists that rely only on
the already lined up datas in rows without benefit of an explicit column
detailing filenames e.g:
copy file whose name contains old_name_final of folder source_images_dir to
folder dest_image_dir -- trying to copy a named 123.jpg armed only with 123
or
copy file (old_name_final & ".jpg") of folder source_images_dir to folder
dest_image_dir -- trying to copy a named 123.jpg armed only with 123
I'm sorry to say I didn't document exactly why these failed instead I
abandoned these approaches and moved on.
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From: brian <email@hidden>
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Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 00:42:55 -0400
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To: <email@hidden>
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Subject: script to rename files - rather long, sorry
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A colleague of mine has presented me with a problem where I believe
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Applescript can flex its muscles and save the day.
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the problem is this:
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He spends hours weekly renaming image files from whatever their old name was
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to a new name. The old name is typically a vendor part number, or some other
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esoteric piece of data that has meaning to the original creator. The new name
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has meaning to my organization. for instance file 'abc.jpg' needs to be
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renamed 'p123456.jpg'.
<snip>
thanks again.
replies gratefully received to email@hidden or email@hidden --
or both.
brian
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