RE: Variable renaming and managing a folder
RE: Variable renaming and managing a folder
- Subject: RE: Variable renaming and managing a folder
- From: "Bull, Rex J (CCC)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 07:11:12 -0500
You may want to just check to see if the folder exists and if it does deal
with it however you want before making and renaming the ne folder.
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Rex Bull
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PrePress Support
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Carlson Craft Business Solutions
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Phone: 507-386-2508
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From: Bernard Azancot
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Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 6:18 AM
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To: AppleScript
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Subject: Variable renaming and managing a folder
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Hello !
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My problem is simple but irritating newbie problem.
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I backup files from an "A" drive to a "B" drive in a folder "X".
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This folder is renamed according to the backup variable date reference.
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Actually the script is OK, but it stops when it encounters a folder
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with the same name as the day backup folder ("X" renamed) in the "B"
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drive (backup already performed the same day).
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I want to keep only one backup folder a day. So, when a folder with the
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same name already exists in drive "B", I would like to replace/delete
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it.
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set MyFolder to folder "X"
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set name of MyFolder to todaysDate as text
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"X" --> "mm-dd-yyyy BU"
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No problem of course to do it with the "X" folder *before* it has been
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renamed, but I cannot figure how to do it with the new folder variable
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name.
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Deleting MyFolder deletes the new "X" folder, not the previous backup
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folder.
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Any help woud be highly appreciated.
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Guys, your contributions here do have an enormous value for newbies
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like me.
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I read you every day and learn a lot.
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Many thanks.
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Bernard.
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