Re: file extension
Re: file extension
- Subject: Re: file extension
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:51:30 -0500
On 10/21/04 8:38 AM, "simeli" <email@hidden> wrote:
> I am completely new to apple script and was wondering if anyone has an
> idea on how i could solve the following problems:
>
> - how i could add a .qxd extension to all quark xpress documents in a
> given folder recursively if they don't already have one. would be cool if
> that was also possible with other documents, such as eps files or tiff
> since we have tons of them on our server and the new windows machines
> have trouble without those extensions
>
> - how could i replace all / & with a - anywhere in filenames and delete *
> entirely. we have quite a few files scattered all over that are named
> *Rez-s/w_new.tif. would be nice if thi would also work recursively and
> just skip the instances where there is a conflict (say a file *Rez.tif
> and one Rez.tif in the same folder)
>
> any help would be greatly appreciated
I have a script...doesn't work on folders, I just never got around to
it...but it does almost everything else you'd want...
The article is at
<http://www.bynkii.com/applescript/archives/2003_03.html#000070>
And the link to the script file is in the article.
john
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