Re: Move files to the right folder.
Re: Move files to the right folder.
- Subject: Re: Move files to the right folder.
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:14:08 -0400
On 10/16/06, Jan Bultereys <email@hidden> wrote:
Hi, I am looking for a script which moves file to the right folder based on
the name of the files.
The most annoying part of doing that with AppleScript is getting the
leading 0s into the folder names. :) Here's a solution, which the
more knowledgeable on the list may pick apart. Note that it will
create the appropriate Vendor_Code folder if it doesn't already exist.
set sourceFolder to choose folder with prompt "Select folder
containing files to move:"
set destRoot to choose folder with prompt "Select folder containing
vendor-code subfolders:"
tell application "Finder"
set fileList to (get files of sourceFolder)
end tell
set oldDelim to text item delimiters
set text item delimiters to "_"
repeat with aFile in fileList
set fileName to (name of aFile as string)
set vendorCode to text item 2 of fileName as number
set lowerLimit to pad(5, vendorCode div 100 * 100)
set upperLimit to pad(5, vendorCode div 100 * 100 + 99)
set folderName to lowerLimit & "-" & upperLimit & "_Vendor_Code"
tell application "Finder"
try
set targetFolder to folder folderName of destRoot
on error e number n partial result p from f to t
if n = -1728 then
set targetFolder to (make new folder in destRoot with properties
{name:folderName})
else
error e number n partial result p from f to t
end if
end try
move aFile to targetFolder
end tell
end repeat
set text item delimiters to oldDelim
on pad(limit, num)
set resultStr to (num as string)
repeat while length of resultStr < limit
set resultStr to "0" & resultStr
end repeat
return resultStr
end pad
Folders:
00000-00099_Vendor_Code
00100-00199_Vendor_Code
00200-00299_Vendor_Code
00300-00399_Vendor_Code
00400-00499_Vendor_Code
00500-00599_Vendor_Code
.....
12000-12099_Vendor_Code
Name of the files:
BE_00097_M3200W
BE_00158_M1370
So based on the number between BE_ and _M3200W the file should be moved to
the right folder, in this case to the folder (for the 1st example):
00000-00099_Vendor_Code
Any ideas are much appreciated
Jan
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