[tycheung]

Hi all,


Looking for a way to make Applescript look at a list of folders in a directory, and for each folder make a smart album in photo with the name of the folder. i.e.

foreach (folder name){

create smartalbum searching for all files containing name of the folder

}


is this dooable?

Thanks,

Tyler

[BLAZE_MkIV]

repeat for every theFolder in ( every folder of theDirectory )

set theItems to every file of theFolder
set theAlbumFiles to {}

repeat with theItem in theItems

if name of theItem contains name of theFolder

copy theItem to end of theAlbumFiles

end

end

end

Should get you started. Not at home now So i can't test it.

[Sal]

Originally Posted by tycheung

Hi all,


Looking for a way to make Applescript look at a list of folders in a directory, and for each folder make a smart album in photo with the name of the folder. i.e.

foreach (folder name){

create smartalbum searching for all files containing name of the folder

}


is this dooable?

Thanks,

Tyler

I don't believe you can use AppleScript to generate Smart Albums in iPhoto. The term "Smart" does not appear anywhere in its scripting dictionary.

But, here's how you would make new albums from a list of folder names:

Code:
set this_folder to choose folder without invisibles
tell application "Finder"
	set the folder_names to the name of every folder in this_folder
end tell
tell application "iPhoto"
	repeat with i from 1 to the count of the folder_names
		set this_name to item i of the folder_names
		if not (exists album this_name) then
			new album name this_name
		end if
	end repeat
end tell