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Re: Applescript-users Digest, Vol 2, Issue 621
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Re: Applescript-users Digest, Vol 2, Issue 621


  • Subject: Re: Applescript-users Digest, Vol 2, Issue 621
  • From: David Wolfe <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:27:36 -0400

I have found that if I want to perform a script on a group of selected files in alphabetical order, the only way I can get them to actually be processed in the correct order is if the Finder window from which they are selected is set to Column View. Even in List View with the sort by Name, they are not processed in the correct order.


David Wolfe productionSpecialist settingPace, LLC

   9. Re: File Order Processing Question (pete boardman)

Message: 9
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:18:50 +0100
From: pete boardman <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: File Order Processing Question
To: Applescript Users <email@hidden>
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On 20 Sep 2005, at 16:55, Oakley Masten wrote:

I don’t understand how AppleScript processes files in a folder.

Me neither. :-)

I want it to process them in alphabetical order but it uses some
other criteria.

You can investigate sort orders in the Finder using a script like this: (10.4.2 Tiger required, I think).

--
set f to (choose folder)
set r to {}
tell application "Finder"
     set s1 to items of f -- default Finder order
     set s2 to sort (items of f) as alias list by name -- sort command
     repeat with i from 1 to count s1
         set end of r to name of (item i of s1) & tab & (name of item
i of s2) & return
     end repeat
end tell
r as Unicode text
--

With a file full of ordinary alphabetical names, I've seen little
difference between the columns. But files with numerical names,
leading spaces, or names with punctuation sort very differently. For
example:

1.txt    1.txt
10.txt    2.txt
11.txt    3.txt
2.txt    4.txt
3.txt    5.txt
30.txt    6.txt
4.txt    7.txt
5.txt    8.txt
6.txt    9.txt
7.txt    10.txt
8.txt    11.txt
9.txt    30.txt

Perhaps someone knows a reference for this.

hth

Pete

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