Re: Create a folder with today's date as the folder name
Re: Create a folder with today's date as the folder name
- Subject: Re: Create a folder with today's date as the folder name
- From: Applescript User Lewis <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 22:28:31 -0700
At 15:57 +0000 09/02/02, email@hidden wrote:
Dear list
Can somebody please help me with this small script step
I have a script that zips files to a folder, which works well.
I now need to archive the backups some how and would like a script that
1) creates a new folder with today's date as the folder name
tell application "Finder" to set the NewFolder to (make new folder at
the home with properties {name:(current date) as text})
That's a single line. Of course, the format of the date may not be
what you want. This created a folder named "09 February, 2002
22/07/24" where the last part is the timestamp with the :'s
substituted, automatically, to /'s. I would use:
tell application "Finder" to set the NewFolder to (make new folder at
the home with properties {name:(((year of (current date)) as text) &
" " & (month of (current date)) as text) & " " & ((day of (current
date)) as text)})
But I like the long month format, in general.
One of the failings, in my mind, of AppleScript is it's convoluted
and rather annoying handling of the month, especially if you want the
numerical month.
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