Re: Opening the newest file in a folder
Re: Opening the newest file in a folder
- Subject: Re: Opening the newest file in a folder
- From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:32:36 -0700
At 12:12 -0600 12/14/07, Craig Cope wrote:
>I need to open any file most recently dropped into a folder so I can do some text manipulation on it. My script does the necessary manipulation on a file if I supply its precise file name, but, in practice, the name will vary. My attempts to get the script to open the most recent file have failed
The modification date of a file will not change just because it is moved into a different folder.
You may have to consider a shadow folder that receive files. Let your script process them and then move them into the real destination.
It might be possible to maintain your own list of files in a folder using AppleScript's persistent variables and properties but it would be easy for things to get nasty if, for instance, someone dropped two files at the same time.
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