Re: Making up a file name
Re: Making up a file name
- Subject: Re: Making up a file name
- From: Yvan KOENIG <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2017 15:55:44 +0100
Le 9 mars 2017 à 12:57, Jan Erik Moström < email@hidden> a écrit :
Hi,
It has been many years since I wrote an applescript longer than 2 lines so be kind.
I want to create a file and I want it to have the name "todays date + random text string", i.e. something like this "2017-03-09-svnszfvjsckvtte"
After looking at the web I wrote the code below. The problem is that the existFile function always return true, no matter if the file actually exists or not.
I assume I'm missing something really basic but I can't figure out what?
on makeFileName(todaysDate, basePath)
set fn to ""
repeat 15 times
set fn to fn & (character id (random number from 97 to 122))
end repeat
return POSIX file (basePath & (the short date string of todaysDate) & "-" & fn)
end makeFileName
on existFile(fp)
log fp as text
tell application "System Events"
return exists fp
end tell
end existFile
set td to (current date)
set destFile to makeFileName(td, "/Users/jem/Desktop/")
existFile(destFile)
Your code is not checking that there is an item on the disk, it checks that you have created a descriptor of a file. Edit the code this way :on existFile(fp) log fp as text tell application "System Events" return exists disk item (fp as text) # EDITED end tell end existFile
Yvan KOENIG running Sierra 10.12.3 in French (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 9 mars 2017 15:55:38
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