Hello all. I need to create a script that adds a prefix to files dropped into a folder. Any ideas? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.
Use the search link at the top of the page, restrict your search to Folder Actions in OS X if that’s what you’re using (here if you’re still in OS 9 - you don’t say and it matters a lot), and you’ll see several threads doing exactly that - most often modifying prefixes or adding dates to names in a folder. The one important caveat is that if you are going to change the name of a file in a folder action, you have to move it or catalog it somehow before you do because otherwise your FA (or System Events, anyway) will think it’s a new file and the action will trigger again. These issues are thoroughly discussed in several threads.
When you’ve found something to get you started, then post again with questions about it and we’ll help. Good hunting.
If you are using OS X, this post should have been in in the AppleScript OS X forum. There’s not much traffic here any more.