[benandkelley]

Hi,

I have a folder with about 200 alias items. I would like to copy all of the original files to a backup drive. The originals are in many different places, so it would be tedious and time consuming to find each original and copy it by hand.

I'm using OS 10.3

Is there a short-cut for doing this?

Thanks in advance.

-Ben

[spiky_dog]

good luck. there's no shortcut that i know of. you should be able to write an applescript that can do this by looking up each alias's original (then copy, rinse, repeat)

[chabig]

I don't think an Applescript would be very complex (but I don't know how!). I would recommend you go to Apple's discussion forum at http://discussions.info.apple.com/ and check into the Applescript area. I'm sure someone there will help.

Chris

[Diggory Laycock]

try this:

[php]
set the backupSource to ":Users:diggory:aliases" as alias
set the backupDestination to ":users:diggory:Backup:" as alias


tell application "Finder"
set everyAlias to every item of folder backupSource

repeat with thisAlias in everyAlias
set originalFile to (original item of thisAlias)
duplicate originalFile to backupDestination
end repeat
end tell
[/php]

[benandkelley]

Originally posted by Diggory Laycock

Thanks for the code. I'll give it a try and let you know if it works out as I hope.

Thanks :-)

-Ben