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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 [...]

Choose Folder Dialogs

admin — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:27:56 +0000

In the next few posts, we will look at dialogs where the user chooses among items in directories on the desktop that return reference pointers to the actual files (most are aliases) that they represent. The dialogs we will deal with here are ‘choose folder’, ‘choose file’, ‘choose file name’ and ‘choose color’.

First, a [...]

AppleScript to Sort Folder Items by Creation Date

admin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:48:00 +0000

This script takes the items in a folder specified by ‘front finder window’, gets their names, and sorts them according to their Date of creation. This will look a little complicated if you are fairly new to AppleScript, but a few notes on this should clarify how this works:

tell application "Finder" [...]

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 [...]