I’m working on the script below:
tell application "Finder"
activate
select disk "Preflight"
open selection
select folder "Inprogress" of disk "Preflight"
open selection
select folder "Working" of folder "Inprogress" of disk Preflight
open selection
Now here’s where I get lost, I want to open the folder thats’s inside the folder “working”. That folders name will
change every time. Once that folder is open, I want to locate the file that contains “.pdf” and move it to another
folder of the disk “Preflight” Can anyone help?
cs
" I’m working on the script below: tell application …"
There is no reason to select/open through the heirarchical folders. Since you know the path, just open it.
" Now here’s where I get lost, I want to open the folder thats’s inside the folder “working”. "
There no special Applescript solution. However:
open every folder of folder [path to working]
I haven’t worked with dates much in the Finder, but it may be possible to
open every folder [or first folder] whose creation date > stored_date
– stored date is a property which the script applet
– will remember after each run
And then there is
set old_list to name of every folder in folder [path to working]
– old_list is a property, which the script will remember
– after each run
set new_list to name of every folder in folder [path to working]
repeat with a_name in new_list
if (contents of a_name) is not in old_list then open folder a_name
end
set old_list to new_list
mg
WARNING: the above is pseudocode; it doesn’t list every tell, set, or other command necessary for it function.