Re: Count and rename files
Re: Count and rename files
- Subject: Re: Count and rename files
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 11:57:01 +0200
At 10:48 AM +0200 24/09/03, Peter Mathiessen wrote:
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Hi all,
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Is it possible in some easy way to change the name of a file or rather a
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bunch of files to this - 0001.eps, 0002.eps etc.
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Problem:
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Folder containing 100 files. the filenames are different and also the
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suffix. Want a script to count the files and rename them to 30001.xxx2,
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30002.xxx2 and up to 30100.xxx2.
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The suffix can be different, 3eps2, 3tif2, 3.psd2 etc. The amount of files
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can also be different.
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I have tried different solutions but no one seems to do the job.
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Thanks in advance!
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Peter
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copy "Macintosh HD:Script_folder:Count_rename_files:" as text to the_vol
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set searchFolder to alias (the_vol & "Folder_in")
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set destinationfolder to alias (the_vol & "temp")
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set rename_file to alias (the_vol & "rename")
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set destination_file_folder to alias (the_vol & "filer_ut")
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set myList to list folder destinationfolder without invisibles
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repeat with myFilename in every item of myList
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set movefile to alias (the_vol & "temp:" & myFilename)
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tell application "Finder"
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set name of file movefile to characters -1 thru -4 of (myFilename)
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as string
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end tell
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end repeat
Maybe your script is not working because you say "file movefile" while "movefile" is already an alias: I would just suppress the "file" term. Then you would add a counter and your script should do the job correctly.
Emmanuel
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