Renaming files
Renaming files
- Subject: Renaming files
- From: Thomas Fischer <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 09:15:43 +0200
Hello,
I have a script that edits a text file and then renames the file.
While the change of text works nicely, I have problems with the renaming.
The process is as follows: I open the file using TextWrangler, let it do the text mangling and save and close the file.
I extract a name from the text and then do something like
tell application "Finder"
delay 1
try
if newName ≠ "" then
set the name of myFile to (newName & ".txt")
else
set the name extension of myFile to "txt"
end if
on error theErr
display dialog theErr
end try
end tell
I added the delay, since without it the renaming didn't seem to work, but even with "delay 3" some (most?) files aren't renamed.
There is never an error message.
If I replace the Finder call by
tell application "System Events"
then the file is renamed correctly, even without delay, but the Spotlight comments are lost, which I'd like to preserve.
Does anybody have an idea what goes wrong and /or how to make it work?
All the best
Thomas _______________________________________________
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