Re: Selecting newest file in folder
Re: Selecting newest file in folder
- Subject: Re: Selecting newest file in folder
- From: "Arthur J. Knapp" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 09:57:07 -0400
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From: email@hidden
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Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:10:48 EDT
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... then get info on each item (see Finder Dicitionary,
The "get info" command is actually a part of Standard Additions, and does
not belong to the Finder.
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Then sort the results to the newest.
The Finder's own "sort" command should do the trick.
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Now, I'm sure there is a much more efficient way (Arthur?) to simply ask the
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finder in a single line for all items of folder whatever whose modification
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date is latest, but I'm not familiar with it, being an old-style, verbose
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programmer.
I could do it in one line, but posting a really long line of code to this
mail-server is problematic. :)
set theFolder to alias "MacHD:MyFolder:" -- debug
tell application "Finder"
sort (every file of theFolder) by modification date
set theNewFile to item 1 of result as alias
end tell
theNewFile --> alias "MacHD:MyFolder:NewestFile.new"
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B&P Wrote:
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> I want to be able to select the most recent file in a
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> folder (which has just been created by Filemaker) and move
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> it to to a subfolder.
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