Re: Fwd: Network volume considerations when working with files?
Re: Fwd: Network volume considerations when working with files?
- Subject: Re: Fwd: Network volume considerations when working with files?
- From: Brett Conlon <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 11:52:54 +1100
This has been a blindingly hectic project
so I haven't been able to much troubleshooting but with this script it
simply wouldn't produce any results on volumes mounted over the network.
If the script was run locally it would successfully find items.
The other script I have is my AutoPrint
to PDF script which creates a PDF on the desktop then moves it to the job's
Dispatch folder. Whenever someone runs it on a Quark file they have opened
up from someone's Mac mounted on the desktop the script has trouble moving
it to the job's Dispatch folder and ditches out of the try statement to
return my error statement "Sorry, I had troubles moving your PDF.
It's still on the desktop...." and so on.
From these two scripts I know I have
gaps in my understanding of how to deal with files over network volumes
and I know I still need to learn more about working with aliases etc.
Ta muchly,
Coj
ps. my apologies for sending the below
email to the list again... I didn't see that you forwarded it to the list
(THANKS!) It's just so hectic here at the mo, I can't tell my ass from
my face, but, hey, neither can anyone else. ;-D
"Mark J. Reed"
<email@hidden>
Sent by: applescript-users-bounces+brett.conlon=email@hidden
01/08/07 11:46 PM
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Brett sent this only to me instead of to the list... I
can't look at it right now but maybe Ed or someone else can.
Brett: the text of the error messages would also be helpful.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Brett Conlon <email@hidden
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Date: Aug 1, 2007 1:01 AM
Subject: Re: Network volume considerations when working with files?
Here's the script... thanks to the recent thread about spotlight searching
I was able to write the below script. It scanned 67GB of PDF files to find
1500 jobs containing specific catalogue numbers inside them - all in one
swift go! I estimated that it saved us almost 42 hours worth of locating,
moving and naming the files manually - Go AppleScript!!!!
I've deleted the Pashua dialog handle but here's the script - plz go easy
on me... I still feel like I should be in AppleScript nappies (Oz for diapers).
on run
set
ThisSearch
to
""
DoThis(ThisSearch
)
end run
on open
ThisSearch
if
class
of
ThisSearch
is not
folder
then
display
dialog "Only drop FOLDERS you
wish to search onto this script." buttons
{"Sorry"} default
button 1 with
icon stop
else
DoThis(ThisSearch)
end
if
end open
on DoThis(ThisSearch)
set
pashuaResult
to
my
pashua_run(ThisSearch)
set
ThisSearch
to
ThisSearch
of
pashuaResult
set
TheDestination
to
TheDestination
of
pashuaResult
set
TheDestination
to
POSIX file
TheDestination
--set
SearchElements to SearchElements of pashuaResult (*this is commented out
coz I couldn't get Pashua to return more than the first value from a whole
column of values copied & pasted from an Excel spreadsheet, so I had
to resort to the below AppleScript dialog*)
set
SearchElements
to
paragraphs
of
text returned
of
(display dialog
¬
"Enter text
to search. Note: separated multiple items by a return:" default
answer return)
set
CopyMove
to
CopyMove
of
pashuaResult
set
POSIXSearch
to
quoted form
of
POSIX path
of
ThisSearch
tell
me
to
activate
repeat
with
anElement
in
SearchElements
try
set
FoundFile
to
(do shell script
"mdfind -onlyin " & POSIXSearch
& " \"kMDItemTextContent == '" & anElement
& "'\"") as
Unicode text
set
AppleScript's
text item delimiters
to
return
--this helps
split up multiple found items
set
myItems
to
text items
of
FoundFile
set
AppleScript's
text item delimiters
to
""
repeat
with
i
in
myItems
set
i
to
POSIX file
i
tell
application
"Finder"
set
iName
to
name
of
i
if
CopyMove
is
"Move" then
set
IMoved
to
move
i
to
TheDestination
else
set
IMoved
to
duplicate
i
to
TheDestination
end
if
set
the
name
of
IMoved
to
anElement
& " " & iName
end
tell
end
repeat
on
error
""
end
try
end
repeat
tell
application
"Finder"
open
TheDestination
activate
beep
2
display
dialog "The search is complete."
end
tell
end DoThis
--
Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>
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