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Help with Find and Do with Multiple Applications


  • Subject: Help with Find and Do with Multiple Applications
  • From: Kellen Ruyle via AppleScript-Users <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 22:56:19 -0500

Hi! I am new to AppleScript and have been going through AppleScript 1-2-3 by
Sal Soghoian and Bill Cheeseman. It’s great and I am learning a lot.

I am working through a script but it seems to give me an error “Finder got an
error; AppleEvent handler failed.”number-10000

I am trying to generate a list of the names of the image files displayed in the
frontmost Finder window, sorted by their file size, and then creating a new
document in TextEdit containing the list of names. I can attach screenshot if
need be. I have copied and pasted the code below. Any help would be great
thanks!

tell application "Finder"
    -- generate a list of file references sorted by size
    set these_items to sort (get every document file ¬
          of the front Finder window) by physical size
    -- generate a list of names
    set these_names to {}
    repeat with i from 1 to the count of these_items
            set the end of these_names to ¬
                  the name of (item i of these_items)
    end repeat
end tell
-- convert the list of names to a paragraph-delimited text block
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to return
set the item_list to these_names as string
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {""}
-- make a new document with the text
tell application "TextEdit"
    activate
    make new document
    set text of document 1 to the item_list
end tell

I greatly appreciate it!

Regards,
Kel

Sent from my iPhone



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