A way to get a folder name into a file name

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#1

I’m looking for a way to get a containing folder name into each filename inside it.
IE., a file named “file” inside a folder named “folder” would be renamed “folder file”.
I have a lot of files that are inside folders with the dates and would like to add those dates to file names, but haven’t been able to figure it out yet.
I thought I might be able to use the container as string, but haven’t been able to make it work from scraps of scripts.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Chris

#2

If I understand the question correctly:

tell application "Finder"
  set baseFolder to (choose folder) -- get the folder
  set baseFolderName to name of baseFolder as text -- work out its name
  repeat with eachFile in (files of folder baseFolder) -- iterate through the files in this folder
    set name of eachFile to (baseFolderName & name of eachFile) -- rename each file
  end repeat
end tell
#3

That looks like exactly what I want to do but it doesn’t seem to want to work when I save it out as an application on a 10.4.1 and 10.3.9 machine. It starts and gets the folder name but doesn’t seem to want to apply it to the file names.
As a side question, is there any character limit to new filenames?
Thanks again Camelot,
Chris

#4

Have you considered using a shell script? The UNIX script is very simple:


do shell script "mv " & eachFile & " " & (baseFolderName & name of eachFile)

This would replace the line inside of the repeat and rename all the files.

Good Luck

Craig Smith