What is a simple applescript to add a comment to files dropped on it or in a folder, and not lose the comments that are already there, sort of like IE puts the url in the comment of the downloaded file.




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on open theItems
repeat with theItem in theItems
tell application "Finder" to set the comment of theItem to "Hi there"
end repeat
end open

Sorry, Mark, but you missed the part where bmx269 said "and not lose the comments that are already there."

Your script works for adding the comments, but it doesn't preserve the old comments. Here's my version:

on open the_files
repeat with a_file in the the_files
tell application "Finder"
set old_comment to comment of item a_file
set comment of item a_file to old_comment & " Here are some new comments!"
end tell
end repeat
end open

Hope that helps!

oaf

Thanks oaf and mark,

That script works great, now I need it to comment all the files in a folder I drop onto the script. So say I wanted to comment a whole drive at one, just drop the drive and it comments all the files. Right now it comments only the one dropped onto the script.


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