Re: Renaming files
Re: Renaming files
- Subject: Re: Renaming files
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:07:08 +0000
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I have a solution somewhere. Will try to supply it if I can get to my box before next week.
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From: Thomas Fischer <email@hidden>
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Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:41:09
To: AS Users Lisit<email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Renaming files
Hello Jay,
thanks for your thoughts.
No, the names are not present before, and as I mentioned, I use the Finder for renaming since with System Events I lose the Spotlight comments. Checking if a file with the given name exists and else trying again seems a viable option, albeit a little awkward.
Incidentally, I now found a – somewhat unexpected – solution for my problem.
Instead of the processes
– open the file with TextWrangler
– edit the file using TextEditor macros, finding the new name
– save and close the file with TextWrangler
– rename the file using Finder # doesn't usually work, even with delay!
I do now
– open the file with TextWrangler
– edit the file using TextEditor macros, finding the new name
– rename the file using Finder # always works without delay!
– save and close the file with TextWrangler
I suppose this works because we're dealing with file references all the time, and changing a name for them doesn't hamper TextWrangler's saving.
Still it remains unclear what's happening in the other case.
Cheers
Thomas
Am 21.04.2011 um 04:47 schrieb email@hidden:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> First off, I'm curious if a file with the same name (as what you're renaming
> your file to) already exists in the same directory? If this is the case, the
> Finder (at least in OS 10.6) seems to happily continue without creating the
> new file and not throwing an error. In this case, you may want to use
> 'list folder' to get the current contents and check if that file name already
> exists beforehand.
>
> Most people that use AppleScript try to avoid using the Finder, since it's
> quite clunky. I usually only use it to move, duplicate, rename and update
> items. I've noticed too that sometimes when I try to rename folders/files,
> it sometimes doesn't work like I was hoping. Not sure why this is the case
> though. Another thing you might try is checking to see if your file was
> renamed and if not, maybe loop a few times and see if you can force it.
> I haven't tried this, but here's some code to give you a possible idea:
>
> --
>
> set folderPath to "Snow_Leopard:Users:jyoung:Desktop:test:"
> set myFile to "Snow_Leopard:Users:jyoung:Desktop:test:textfile.rtf"
> set newName to "newFile.txt"
>
> renameFile(folderPath, myFile, newName)
>
> on renameFile(folderPath, myFile, newName)
> set itemList to listFolder(folderPath)
>
> if newName is in itemList then
> error "File already exists!"
> -- If file already exists, maybe delete it beforehand?
> -- Be careful using system events to delete a file though
> -- because you won't get it back!
> -- tell application "System Events" to delete alias (folderPath & newName)
> end if
>
> repeat 5 times
> tell application "Finder" to set alias myFile's name to newName
> delay 1
> if newName is in listFolder(folderPath) then exit repeat
> end repeat
> end renameFile
>
> on listFolder(itemPath)
> tell application "System Events" to return (list folder alias itemPath without invisibles)
> end listFolder
>
> Jay
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