Hi all.
I put together a file renaming script with the invaluable help of some fellow forum posters. It seemed to work perfectly, renaming files in a multi-level directory according to a delimited tabbed .txt file from excel.
The problem is that I started futzing with it and to allow the user to choose the directory and .txt filed that would rename the files in the directory, I started getting this error:
To my eye, everything in my script looks the same as before. I posted it below - it’s short and sweet. I can’t seem to figure out why it’s now getting an error. I’d still love to enable it to prompt the user for the directory and file, but I have to fix this and I’m quite stumped.
Any input would be greatly appreciate. Thank you so much. If you address the “prompt user for” question, I would be doubly in your debt. That’s another can of worms I suppose.
property sourceFolder : "MacHD:path:to:folder" -- adjust as appropriate
property textFile : "MacHD:path:to:file"
-- read in the list of names
set filenameList to paragraphs of (read file textFile)
-- in order to break out the two fields we need to play
-- with text item delimiters
set {oldDelims, text item delimiters} to {text item delimiters, tab}
set err to 0
set allFiles to count filenameList
repeat with aFile in filenameList
set {codified_name, real_name} to text items of aFile
set foundFile to do shell script "/usr/bin/find " & quoted form of POSIX path of sourceFolder & " -name " & quoted form of codified_name
if foundFile is "" then
set err to err + 1
else
tell application "Finder" to set name of (POSIX file foundFile as alias) to real_name
end if
end repeat
set text item delimiters to oldDelims
set msg to (allFiles as text) & " files processed"
if err > 0 then set msg to return & (msg & err as text) & " files not found"
display dialog msg
-- we're going to use the Finder to do this
tell application "Finder"
-- loop through the list
repeat with aFile in filenameList
-- work out the current file name
set codified_name to (sourceFolder & ":" & (text item 1 of aFile)) as string
-- get the real name of the file
set real_name to text item 2 of aFile
-- and rename it
set name of file codified_name to real_name
end repeat
end tell
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