Re: Selecting Multiple Files
Re: Selecting Multiple Files
- Subject: Re: Selecting Multiple Files
- From: Jeff Grossman <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 15:14:14 -0800
- Thread-topic: Selecting Multiple Files
On 11/3/05 1:25 PM, "Michelle Steiner" <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Nov 3, 2005, at 2:15 PM, Jeff Grossman wrote:
>
>> I need to create an applescript for use on Mac OS 8.5 which will
>> select the
>> contents of a folder and copy those files to a folder on a remote
>> computer.
>> I can figure out the part about copying the files, but am having some
>> trouble with the selecting the contents of a folder part. The file
>> names in
>> the folder change each day, so I can't just hard code the file
>> names into
>> the script. How can I select the content of a folder where the
>> file names
>> change?
>
> --routine for selecting the source folder goes here
> --routine for selecting the target folder goes here
>
> tell application "Finder"
> copy the files of the source_Folder to the target_folder
> end tell
>
> Don't know whether "files of the source_folder" works on 8.5, though;
> I don't recall when it was introduced.
>
> -- Michelle
Thanks Michelle. Thanks look like it will do what I need.
Jeff
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