Re: List content of a folder, output to document

Subject: Re: List content of a folder, output to document
From: Thomas Fischer <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 10:32:06 +0100

Hi,

I've been struggling with this kind of question for a while (see thread "Resolving an alias"), because different ways to select folders and files (e.g. by drag and drop, ask file or folder) give you different objects to deal with (finder items, items, aliases…).

Anyway, I finally decided to use the Satimage Osax instead (it's free!). This provides a convenient function "list files":

list files v : make a list of the files contained in the folder

list files alias : a folder

[recursively boolean] : default: true. If false, list files and folders.

[invisibles boolean] : default: false

[of extension list of string] : the required file extension(s)

[not conforming to list of string] : the forbidden Universal Type Identifier(s) (UTI)

[after date] : list only files whose modification date is after the after date parameter

[before date] : list only files whose modification date is before the before date parameter

[names only boolean] : allowed only with recursively false. Default: false

[as type] : string (URL), alias, unix path, path...

→ list of string or list of alias

I use this somewhat like this so collect PDF files:

tell application "Finder"

repeat with theFile in theList

set myProperties to properties of theFile

if class of myProperties is folder then

tell me to set theFiles to theFiles & (list files theFile of extension "pdf")

else if kind of myProperties contains "PDF" then

copy theFile to the end of theFiles

end if

end repeat

end tell

I hope this is of help.

All the best

Thomas

Am 05.01.2010 um 23:37 schrieb Inge Eidem:

Hi

Can you help me?
I need to get a folder´s content/items to be listed in a file for archiving.

I want to choose a folder and get the context menu on the folder to run the script, after starting the script ill end up with a file containing filnames, subfolders and filenames as a list in a text document. Is this possible?

This is what i hope to get in the file:

/index.html
/subfolder1/image.jpg
/file2.txt
/subfolder2/subsubfolder1/meta.qsl

I tried to get spotlight metadata but it was just not what i wanted as output.

Something like this??
tell application "Finder"
try
set filesList to files of sourceFolder as alias list
on error
set filelist to files of sourceFolder as alias as list
end try
end tell

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