[loren s]

Hi, I am in need of an apple script that moves file types into a folder each of their own. Like .jpg and .xml and so on. But I need to be able to edit it as I have all sorts of uncommon file types to. Can some one help me ?

[loren s]

Originally posted by loren s:
Hi, I am in need of an apple script that moves file types into a folder each of their own. Like .jpg and .xml and so on. But I need to be able to edit it as I have all sorts of uncommon file types to. Can some one help me ?

Does no one know of a script ? Or at least a site that has a daily list of new scripts ?

[gorickey]

Originally posted by loren s:
Or at least a site that has a daily list of new scripts ?

http://macscripter.net/

[Diggory Laycock]

you could alter my script which does something similar:

http://monkeyfood.com/software/LibrarySorter/

http://monkeyfood.com/software/Libra...orter.scpt.sit

[genevish]

I have a simple script which does exactly this. I'll post it tonight when I get home...

[loren s]

Originally posted by Diggory Laycock:
you could alter my script which does something similar:

http://monkeyfood.com/software/LibrarySorter/

http://monkeyfood.com/software/Libra...orter.scpt.sit

I tried this, but it is being futzzy with me. I will try again,

I "have" seen an app that does this, but only for the desktop not a folder that it lives in, and it could not be edited as it was just a closed application script, but it had buttons for a bunch of formats but a few I needed were not there.

genevish: Please if you can I would love to get your script, as I am in dire need of a tool to organize my countless files.

[genevish]

Oops, I forgot. Here you go:

Code:
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
	repeat with i from 1 to number of items in these_items
		set this_item to item i of these_items
		set this_item_info to info for this_item
		set this_extension to name extension of this_item_info
		if (this_extension is "jpg") then
			tell application "Finder"
				move this_item to folder "Pics" of this_folder
			end tell
		end if
		if (this_extension is "mov") then
			tell application "Finder"
				move this_item to folder "Video" of this_folder
			end tell
		end if
		if (this_extension is "wmv") then
			tell application "Finder"
				move this_item to folder "Video" of this_folder
			end tell
		end if
		if (this_extension is "mpeg") then
			tell application "Finder"
				move this_item to folder "Video" of this_folder
			end tell
		end if
		if (this_extension is "avi") then
			tell application "Finder"
				move this_item to folder "Video" of this_folder
			end tell
		end if
		if (this_extension is "mpg") then
			tell application "Finder"
				move this_item to folder "Video" of this_folder
			end tell
		end if
	end repeat
end adding folder items to

[loren s]

Originally posted by genevish:
Oops, I forgot. Here you go:

Code:
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
	repeat with i from 1 to number of items in these_items
		set this_item to item i of these_items
		set this_item_info to info for this_item
		set this_extension to name extension of this_item_info
		if (this_extension is "jpg") then
			tell application "Finder"
				move this_item to folder "Pics" of this_folder
			end tell
		end if
		if (this_extension is "mov") then
			tell application "Finder"
				move this_item to folder "Video" of this_folder
			end tell
		end if
		if (this_extension is "wmv") then
			tell application "Finder"
				move this_item to folder "Video" of this_folder
			end tell
		end if
		if (this_extension is "mpeg") then
			tell application "Finder"
				move this_item to folder "Video" of this_folder
			end tell
		end if
		if (this_extension is "avi") then
			tell application "Finder"
				move this_item to folder "Video" of this_folder
			end tell
		end if
		if (this_extension is "mpg") then
			tell application "Finder"
				move this_item to folder "Video" of this_folder
			end tell
		end if
	end repeat
end adding folder items to

I hate to sound stupid, but it does not work for me I tried saveing it as an app I ran it as a script and I saved it to the same folder as the files but no go...

,

[genevish]

Control-click on the folder you want to attach it to, select "Enable Folder Actions" (if they're not enabled already), control-click again and select Attach a Folder Action. Select the script...

[loren s]

Neat, is there anyway to make it a run one time only thing ? Like just when I want to press the run button ?

Well thank you anyway.

[genevish]

Just save it as an application in Script Editor. Then run it whenever you want...

[badidea]

Since this topic is exactly what I also need I am not going to start a new thread...but post my request here!

Can anybody tell me how to do this:

I have several hundred folders containing several thousand files that need to be sorted.
First I want to move all files into one folder (I think I know how to do this with the terminal) but then I want to sort all files by their names.
Files look like this:
aaaaaa1
aaaaaa2
aaaaaa3
...
bbbbbb1
bbbbbb2
bbbbbb3
...
aabb1
aabb2
aabb3
...
I am not sure but I think they can all be identified by the first 4-5 digits and 1,2,3,4,5... should be sorted into folders called aaaa, bbbb, aabb!

This should be easy but since I have never done any scripting I need some help!

Thanks to anybody!

[genevish]

So you want everything that starts with 'aaaaa' in one folder, and everything that starts with 'aabb' in another folder, etc?

[badidea]

Originally posted by genevish:
So you want everything that starts with 'aaaaa' in one folder, and everything that starts with 'aabb' in another folder, etc?

Yes!

This script has to detect that there are for example 50 aaaaaa* files, then create one folder called 'aaaaaa' and move all aaaaaa* files into that folder...