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Re: Renaming files in Finder: why so slow?
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Re: Renaming files in Finder: why so slow?


  • Subject: Re: Renaming files in Finder: why so slow?
  • From: John Delacour <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 12:28:29 +0100
  • Mac-eudora-version: 6.1a1

At 5:33 pm -0500 30/8/03, Bob.Kalbaugh wrote:

I'm attempting to script the renaming of folders and files. I want to
replace spaces with an underscore. I want recursion. I've created a droplet
that works, but it's very s l o w. It took about 30 seconds for a folder
containing about 35 files and folders OMM.


In Mac OS, there are dozens of osaxes that take all the pain and slowness out of this sort of thing.

<http://osaxen.com/gtq_scripting_library.html>


GTQ Programming Suite:
Copyright 1993 GTQ Programming.

rename: rename a file
rename file specification -- file to be renamed
to string -- the new file name
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