Re: Droplet to Rename Breaks Under Jaguar
Re: Droplet to Rename Breaks Under Jaguar
- Subject: Re: Droplet to Rename Breaks Under Jaguar
- From: Timothy Bates <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 11:02:19 +1000
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Try this MINI script. I haven't tested it in a commercial
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environment but it seems to work fine here with Jaguar.
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on open fList
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repeat with f in fList
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tell app "Finder"
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set s to f's name & "-2"
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set f's name to s
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set f's creator type to "GKON"
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set f's file type to "JPEG"
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end
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end
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set fList to {}
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end
Just an FYI: one has to be careful with names in 10.X
In particular, the displayed name and suffix are different from the name. So
adding "-2" to the name of a file might cause
"Mypict.jpg-2" to happen when what you wanted was "Mypict-2.jpg"
A quick way to handle this is to deal with the name but check if it has a
suffix and then split on this. That can be effortful as well if people have
(as they are wont) files called myphoto.jpg.jpg.jpg
But then wants cleaning up anyhow. One thing that hit me then was finding
that I had a file called "myphoto.jpg" another called "myphoto.jpg.jpg" both
in the same folder, then when you fix the double suffix you get an error.
But it is easy to handle in a try block, with a loop to find a non-occupied
name like myphoto_2.jpg
I wrote a bunch of scripts to handle moving downloaded pdfs, which IE names
"sciencedirect n". My script moves these from the download folder to my
papers folder, finding new, unique names to avoid conflicts.
always Tim
It would be nice if preview was scriptable and I could say "get the
selection as text" from a pdf I am viewing.
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