Re: renaming files with applescript
Re: renaming files with applescript
- Subject: Re: renaming files with applescript
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:10:51 -0400
Er, those '+'s should be '&'s.
On 10/22/08, Mark J. Reed <email@hidden> wrote:
> You can't move and rename at the same time with the Finder or system
> events. The new name is just the filename, not the full path.
>
> If you need to do both at once you can use do shell script "mv " +
> quoted form of POSIX path of someFile + " " + quoted form of
> newPosixPath
>
>
> On 10/22/08, Brian Christmas <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> On 23/10/2008, at 9:41 AM, email@hidden wrote:
>>
>>> Hi I am trying to rename some files with applescript
>>>
>>> I have two variables, oldName and newName
>>>
>>> this is part of a bigger script, but have simplified it down to just
>>> what
>>> is not working... the variables are normally created by the script,
>>> I have
>>> substituted the info directly here to make it more clear...
>>>
>>> this does not work:
>>> set oldName to "Users:richsimpson:Desktop:apc.jpg"
>>> set newName to "Users:richsimpson:Desktop:test.jpg"
>>> tell application "Finder"
>>> activate
>>> set name of file oldName to newName
>>> end tell
>>>
>>> this does not work either:
>>> tell application "Finder"
>>> activate
>>> set name of file "Users:richsimpson:Desktop:apc.jpg" to
>>> "Users:richsimpson:Desktop:test.jpg"
>>> end tell
>>>
>>> any ideas as to what I am doing wrong?
>>> thanks,
>>> -Rich
>>
>>
>> G'day Rich
>>
>> try
>>
>> set oldName to "Users:richsimpson:Desktop:apc.jpg"
>> set newName to "test.jpg"
>> tell application "Finder"
>> activate
>> set name of file oldName to newName
>> end tell
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Santa
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