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Re: Manipulating multiple files in arbitrary applications
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Re: Manipulating multiple files in arbitrary applications


  • Subject: Re: Manipulating multiple files in arbitrary applications
  • From: Andy Wylie <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 20:57:04 +1200

on Tue, 13 Aug 2002 17:22:08 +0100 Hamish Allan wrote:

>What I want to do is simple. For a collection of files (e.g., traverse a
>folder and its subfolders), open them in the application, and simply save
>them again (the purpose of this exercise is to ensure that their file
>associations are correct - the files in question were created on a PC).
>
>My pseudo-code would look something like this:
>
>for filename in "folder" plus subfolders
> tell application "myapp"
> open filename
> save as filename
> end tell
>end for
>
>Could anyone tell me whether this is possible, and if so whether I need any
>extensions, and where I might find some example code for doing this?

pre OS X OSAX rule for this job, Akua Sweets...
-- http://www.akua.com/Software/AkuaSweets/index.html

set x to the entries in (choose folder) whose types are in {"JPEG"} to a
depth of -1 as file
repeat with i in x
apply catalog info {file creator:"ogle"} to i
end repeat

--or Tanaka's which includes a unique 'name contains' parameter...
-- http://mtlab.ecn.fpu.ac.jp/

set x to MT List Files (choose folder) of type {"JPEG"} return as file
specification with sub folders
repeat with i in x
MT Change File Info i creator type "ogle"
end repeat


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