Re: Need Automatic Folder Color Labeling Script
Re: Need Automatic Folder Color Labeling Script
- Subject: Re: Need Automatic Folder Color Labeling Script
- From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:23:59 -0700
On Apr 30, 2007, at 11:55 AM, Aaron Gates wrote:
I'm a recent switchover to Apple and I'm trying to figure out a way to
organize one of my folder structures (job folders). I always drag a
standardized set of folders into each job folder and then organize
my files
into them. Is there a simple script that would allow me to have the
the
folders within that set of folders automatically turn red when a
file is
placed in them and leave the empty folders colorless?
I'm trying to figure out exactly what you want. You have a top-level
job folder. Let's name it "top" for the purpose of this discussion.
Inside top you have a group of folders, let's call them level1-1,
through level1-n.
You want a folder at level1 to turn red whenever a file is placed
inside it, but to leave all the other level1 folders white until
files are placed inside them, right?
Save the following script as "set label to red" in the folder "folder
actions" of the folder "scripts" of the folder "Library" of your
startup disk.
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
tell application "Finder"
set label index of this_folder to 1
end tell
end adding folder items to
Then save this script to the same place as "attach actions"
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
tell application "System Events"
repeat with this_item in these_items
attach action to this_item using "set label to red"
end repeat
end tell
end adding folder items to
When you create a top-level folder ("top" in this example), attach
the second script ("attach actions") to it. Then when you move the
level1 folders into "top", the script attached to top should attach
the "set label to red" script to each level1 folder.
Then when you add an item to a level1 folder, it should turn red.
I have not tested these scripts, but I believe they should work.
-- Michelle
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