Re: Setting spotlight comments
Re: Setting spotlight comments
- Subject: Re: Setting spotlight comments
- From: JF <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 13:04:47 +0100
I have found an automator solution from <http://www.applesprite.com/blog/2010/07/12/adding-spotlight-comments-overcoming-finders-limitations/>
For interest (perhaps) the site includes a script which appends or overwrites Spotlight comments, but it does it to every file in a folder. I just wanted the selected file(s) to have the comment.
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tell application "Finder"
activate
try
set thisFolder to (target of front Finder window) as alias
on error
choose folder with prompt "Set comments of files in this folder:"
set thisFolder to result
end try
display dialog "Comment:" default answer "" with title "Set Spotlight Comments"
set newComment to text returned of result
display dialog "How to handle existing comments?" buttons {"Overwrite", "Cancel", "Append"} default button 3 with title "Set Spotlight Comments"
if (button returned of result) is "Overwrite" then
set comment of every file of folder thisFolder to newComment
else
get every file of folder thisFolder
repeat with thisFile in result
tell thisFile
if length of (comment as text) is not 0 then
get ", " & newComment
else
get newComment
end if
set comment to (comment & result)
end tell
end repeat
end if
beep
end tell
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Sat, 18 May 2013 11:40:08 +0100, JF wrote:
>I have 100s of files which need to have a particular spotlight comment.
>I can do this manually by opening the "Get Info" dialog box, but this is
>very time consuming. Is there a way of selecting an file (or a whole lot
>of files) and applying an appleScript which will automatically place the
>spotlight comment. If opening the Get Info box is required this is done
>without display.
>
>Spotlight is a preference pane in System Preferences and I don't know
>how to script it directly. I have tried this in both Finder and System
>Preferences, but neither work:
>
>tell application "System Preferences" -- or "Finder"
> set comment of selection to "Set 2"
>end tell
>
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>
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