Re: variables within idle
Re: variables within idle
- Subject: Re: variables within idle
- From: Deivy Petrescu <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 13:31:42 -0400
> On Jul 30, 2015, at 12:13 , Die Fledermaus <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> I have a script which watches a folder and moves the files based on the activity of one of the folders. The problem comes when I run this script with idle the variable nameslist comes back as undefined when it runs. if I take out the idles and just loop it or run it once I do not get the error. I have tried setting the nameslist variable as a global and that was the same result.
>
> What am I missing when it comes to idles and this variable. The other variable set to global works without a hitch. I am running this on a 10.10.4 machine.
>
> global nameslist
> global theWatchedFolder
> set nameslist to " "
> set theWatchedFolder to "Macintosh HD:Users:ifbell:Desktop:videofinished" as string
> on idle
> tell application "Finder"
> set folderFiles to (every file in the folder theWatchedFolder whose name extension is "mp4")
> if folderFiles is equal to {} then return
> repeat with currentFile in folderFiles
> set currentFileName to (the name of currentFile)
> #display alert currentFileName
> copy currentFileName to the end of items in nameslist
> end repeat
> end tell
> #display alert listOfNames
> tell application "Finder"
> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "."
> repeat with n from 1 to count of nameslist
> try
> copy (item n of nameslist) to fileName
> set {finname, nameExt} to {text 1 thru text item -2, text item -1} of fileName
> display alert finname giving up after 10
> set fileloc to "/Users/user/Desktop/videoTBP/" & finname & ".mov" as string
> set finloc to "/Users/user/Desktop/videoprocessed/"
> #display alert fileloc
> do shell script "mv " & quoted form of fileloc & " " & quoted form of finloc & ""
> on error errTxt number errNum
> display notification finname & " has been moved"
> end try
> end repeat
> end tell
>
> end idle
>
Mark replied with a major error, there is no “return n".
But also
nameslist is a string but you want to add items to it as if it was a list.
nameslist should be a list.
finname, is text item -2 of fileName . No need to use text 1 thru...
Using
set WatchedFolder to "Macintosh HD:Users:if bell:Desktop:videofinished"
makes this script attached to your current computer, if you use 'path to “desk” ‘ it becomes a bit more flexible.
My 2cents
Deivy Petrescu
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