Re: Renaming files
Re: Renaming files
- Subject: Re: Renaming files
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 09:04:22 -0500
You said "this_info" . . . are you expecting the name to change in an
already-obtained info record? Because I don't think it will...
On Dec 5, 2007 7:03 PM, James Nierodzik <email@hidden> wrote:
> Well, figured I would ask.. Is there anything special or strange about the
> file in question?
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> This is working for me
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> set x to choose file
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> tell application "Finder"
> set current_name to name of x -- returns "Picture 1.png"
> set name of x to "thepicture.png"
> set new_name to name of x -- returns thepicture.png
> end tell
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> ~
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> James
> P Please consider the environment
> before printing this email.
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> On Dec 5, 2007, at 5:55 PM, Peter Baxter wrote:
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> Nothing clever,
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> set the current_name to the name of this_info
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> On 06/12/2007, at 10:47 AM, James Nierodzik wrote:
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> No problems here, what are you doing exactly?
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> James
> P Please consider the environment
> before printing this email.
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> On Dec 5, 2007, at 2:29 PM, Peter Baxter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While working on a script for someone on this list, I discovered that I can
> no longer rename files using "vanilla" applescript on my computer. OS X
> 10.5.1.
> Shell scripts are OK.
> Does anyone else have the same problem?
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>
> Peter Baxter
> email@hidden
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> "Never ask a man what computer he uses. If it's a Mac, he'll tell you. If
> it's not, why embarrass him?" --Tom Clancy
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