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Re: Add to Folder Names script broken (and a Thank you!!!)
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Re: Add to Folder Names script broken (and a Thank you!!!)


  • Subject: Re: Add to Folder Names script broken (and a Thank you!!!)
  • From: "koenig.yvan" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 09:44:04 +0100

The wrong intructions were the same than those available in your other script so the correction is the same.

Look at the three ones commented as # AWFUL INSTRUCTION

(*
Add Prefix-Suffix to Fldr Names

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2014/02/23 Yvan KOENIG reenabled the choose folder instruction
and replaced the awful instructions coercing record to string by clean ones.
*)

set the source_folder to (choose folder with prompt "Pick the folder containing the folders to rename:")
(*
try
tell application "Finder" to set the source_folder to (folder of the front window) as alias
on error -- no open folder windows
set the source_folder to path to desktop folder as alias
end try
*)
set the prefix_or_suffix to ""
repeat
display dialog "Enter the prefix or suffix to use:" default answer the prefix_or_suffix buttons {"Cancel", "Prefix", "Suffix"}
# copy the result as list to {the prefix_or_suffix, the button_pressed}  # AWFULL INSTRUCTION
set {text returned:prefix_or_suffix, button returned:button_pressed} to result # Thanks to Nigel GARVEY
if the button_pressed is "Cancel" then error number -128
if the prefix_or_suffix is not "" then exit repeat
end repeat
set the item_list to list folder source_folder without invisibles
set source_folder to source_folder as string
repeat with i from 1 to number of items in the item_list
set this_item to item i of the item_list
set this_item to (source_folder & this_item) as alias
set this_info to info for this_item
set the current_name to the name of this_info
if folder of this_info is true then
if the button_pressed is "Prefix" then
set the new_file_name to the (the prefix_or_suffix & the current_name) as string
else
set the new_file_name to the (the current_name & the prefix_or_suffix) as string
end if
my set_item_name(this_item, the new_file_name)
end if
end repeat
beep 2

on set_item_name(this_item, new_item_name)
tell application "Finder"
--activate
set the parent_container_path to (the container of this_item) as text
if not (exists item (the parent_container_path & new_item_name)) then
try
set the name of this_item to new_item_name
on error the error_message number the error_number
if the error_number is -59 then
set the error_message to "This name contains improper characters, such as a colon (:)."
else --the suggested name is too long
set the error_message to error_message -- "The name is more than 31 characters long."
end if
--beep
tell me to display dialog the error_message default answer new_item_name buttons {"Cancel", "Skip", "OK"} default button 3
#copy the result as list to {new_item_name, button_pressed} # AWFUL INSTRUCTION
set {text returned:new_item_name, button returned:button_pressed} to result # Thanks to Nigel GARVEY # was wrongly disabled
if the button_pressed is "Cancel" then error number -128
if the button_pressed is "Skip" then return 0
my set_item_name(this_item, new_item_name)
end try
else --the name already exists
--beep
tell me to display dialog "This name is already taken, please rename." default answer new_item_name buttons {"Cancel", "Skip", "OK"} default button 3
#copy the result as list to {new_item_name, button_pressed} # AWFUL INSTRUCTION
set {text returned:new_item_name, button returned:button_pressed} to result # Thanks to Nigel GARVEY # was wrongly disabled
if the button_pressed is "Cancel" then error number -128
if the button_pressed is "Skip" then return 0
my set_item_name(this_item, new_item_name)
end if
end tell
end set_item_name


Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 3 mars 2014 09:43:46





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