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Transfer Files to New Folder

admin — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 03:31:11 +0000

Sometimes I am overwhelmed with the number of items that I have on my desktop and within folders and subfolders and having to spend so much of my time trying to organize them so they will be easy to locate. So, I came up with a script to automate that task.

To use this script, [...]

Using Aliases and POSIX Paths

admin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:18:53 +0000

Over the time that I have been writing AppleScripts, I have found that one of the most difficult, if not frustrating, tasks of writing scripts is referencing files by path so that they can be accessed by other applications.

As you’ll see below, creating a reference that is understandable by the Finder is fairly [...]

The Finder’s Standard Suite

admin — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:01:59 +0000

In my last post, we took a look at how to use the Finder’s print command, which is part of the Standard Suite. As promised, in this post we will now look at the remaining commands that make up the Standard Suite, namely: open,quit and activate.

While the last two are pretty simple to [...]

Finder Script to Delete Old Folders

admin — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:15:42 +0000

This script can be used in a database program or compiled for general use in the Script Editor. It looks for folders such as ‘January 2009′ and determines if they are 3 or more months old and, if so, places them in the trash.

set AppleScript's [...]