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Re: cleaning my desktop


  • Subject: Re: cleaning my desktop
  • From: "Steven D. Majewski" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 14:32:58 -0400


On Oct 3, 2007, at 1:11 PM, William Chu wrote:

Hi,
Need to make an applescript that can organize all my files on the desktop to the appropriate folders (documents, music, pictures, movies) during shutdown, restart, or logging off. Can anybody help me, please. My desktop is getting cluttered by the hour
Will



[1] First make a new folder on your desktop, and copy everything else on the desktop into it.
That solved the clean-up-the-desktop part of the problem.
( If the desktop folder is also your download folder, you may want to also change that. )


[2] Use Finder smart folders to sort the contents.
Nobody could ever guess how you would want to sort your folders, and even if they could,
you wouldn't want to have to edit to applescript whenever you wanted to add or change
anything. Smart folders will be easier to manage.


[3] Start using spotlight comments and color labels to tag files new files -- those tags
will give you other criteria to use in smart folders.



I've only just started to do the above myself to try to sort out my own mess.


Now my questions for Applescript Users is:

  How can you access the contents of a smart folder from Applescript ?

Although they show up in the Finder (looking like folders) they are
really xml plist files. I don't see anything in the Finder dict to
access these smart folders. Is spotlight otherwise scriptable ?
I don't see a separate dict for it, although I do see one for Sherlock.


  And similarly, how can you access the list of files thru the shell?


-- Steve Majewski


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