I'm trying to write an AppleScript for a Keyboard Maestro Macro, which opens the pictures folder of a camera SD or CF Card in an existing Finder window.
This is my current code, which opens the mounted Volume.
tell application "Keyboard Maestro Engine"
set KMVarPath to get value of variable "path"
end tell
set the_string to "/Volumes/" & KMVarPath
set the_path to (POSIX file the_string) as string
tell application "Finder"
activate
if window 1 exists then
set target of window 1 to the_path
else
reveal the_path
end if
end tell
The problem is those folders are called ie 276ND2XS or 105ND800. I'd like to specify the 'suffix' (ND2XS/ND800) and open the folder with the highest 'prefix' number.
Is there a way to do that?
And for convenience, is there a way to check, whether the volume is an SD or CF Card? Or do I have to check via the name (NIKON D2XS / NIKON D800)?
I suggest you to look for shell command : system_profiler SPStorageDataType
You can use it in a "do shell script" command in your applescript.
This command gives you, among others, the name all connected storage types (USD, SD card, hard drive), the mount point (example /volumes/myDisk), the physical drive device name and media name, and the protocol (USB, SATA, ATA,...). I don't have CF Card to test, but it should give you a way to detect. As example, When I use SD card, Media Name is "APPLE SD Card Reader Media".
Once you know the volume, you can get the folder with highest counter name with :
set the_path to choose folder -- this is just for my test ! replace by your path "Volumes:..." as alias
set the_Folder to ""
set the_Highest to 0
tell application "Finder"
set my_List to name of every folder in the_path whose (name contains "D2XS") or (name contains "ND800")
repeat with a_folder in my_List
try
set the_Num to (text 1 thru 3 of a_folder) as integer
on error
set the_Num to 0
end try
if the_Num > the_Highest then
set the_Highest to the_Num
set the_Folder to a_folder
end if
end repeat
end tell
log "num=" & the_Num
log "fodler=" & (the_Folder)
Related
I'm new to Xcode as well as I am to AppleScript
All I need is to run an AppleScript in an Xcode application.
Bassically, the application is downloading pictures from a url list in Excel and renames the files acording the list in Excel
Here is the applescript code :
tell application "Microsoft Excel"
set filenames to value of every cell of range "K3:K200" of sheet "Image_Moves" of document 1
set URLs to value of every cell of range "L3:L200" of sheet "Image_Moves" of document 1
end tell
repeat with i from 1 to count URLs
if (item i of filenames is not missing value) and (item i of URLs is not missing value) then
set thisFname to quoted form of (POSIX path of ({path to desktop, "Image_Moves:"} as text) & item i of filenames)
set thisUrl to quoted form of item i of URLs
set status to (do shell script "curl -s -o " & thisFname & space & thisUrl)
end if
end repeat
try
tell application "Finder"
delete (every item of folder ("Image_Moves") whose name begins with "0")
end tell
on error
display dialog ("Error. Couldn't Move the File") buttons {"OK"}
end try
In Xcode, you can write a full application in AppleScript with the "Cocoa-AppleScript" template. Also, you can compile and execute an AppleScript with the NSAppleScript class. If your question is just about making an AppleScript executable, use Save As... in Script Editor and save your AppleScript as an application.
HTH
I have been trying to cobble together a script to take a list of files from a text document and have applescript go through the list line by line and then do something with the file. In this case it is changing the label on the file, but we would use it in other instances to move files, etc.
It works with a test file on my desktop the files get marked with the purple Label, but when trying to run it in the folder I actually need to it fails with this error message:
error "Finder got an error: Can’t set 1 to 5." number -10006 from 1
The text files are the same except for the length of their content.
Could this be a an issues with filenames, and if so how do I make the script more tolerant.
Here is the script:
set textFileContents to POSIX path of (choose file)
set dataList to paragraphs of (read textFileContents as «class utf8»)
tell application "System Events"
repeat with thisFileName in dataList
tell application "Finder" to set (label index of files whose name is thisFileName) to 5
end repeat
end tell
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
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Here is the final code from the solution to this problem and some further work I did.
Thanks to #Mark Setchell & #jackjr300 for all of their patient help.
set justpath to POSIX path of (choose folder with prompt "Select the Folder with Files You Want to Use")
set textFileContents to (choose file with prompt "Select the list of files")
set dataList to paragraphs of (read textFileContents as «class utf8»)
tell application "Finder"
repeat with FileName in dataList
try -- need a try block to ignore error, in case that the file has been moved or deleted
set label index of (justpath & FileName as POSIX file as alias) to 5
end try
end repeat
end tell
You seem to have a spurious tell application "System Events" in there. It works like this:
set FileName to POSIX path of (choose file)
set FileRecords to paragraphs of (read FileName)
repeat with ThisFileName in FileRecords
say ThisFileName
tell application "Finder" to set (label index of files whose name is thisFileName) to 5
end repeat
Note that my test file isn't UTF8.
Update
By the way, if all you want do is set the label colour on some files, it may be easier to do that from the Terminal and not worry with Applescript. Say you start the Terminal, and go to your Desktop like this
cd Desktop
you can then change the labels of all files on your Desktop (and in any subdirectories) whose names contain "Freddy" followed by "Frog" (i.e "fileForFreddyFrog.txt", "file from Freddy the Frog.php")
find . -name "*Freddy*Frog*" -exec xattr -wx com.apple.FinderInfo "0000000000000000000700000000000000000000000000000000000000000000" {} \;
You need to specify the folder because the finder has no current folder, except the Desktop if you don't specify a folder.
set textFileContents to choose file
set dataList to paragraphs of (read textFileContents as «class utf8»)
set theFolder to "/Users/jack/Desktop/xxx/yyy" as POSIX file as alias -- change it to the path of your folder
tell application "Finder"
repeat with thisFileName in dataList
try -- need a try block to ignore error, in case that the file has been moved or deleted
set label index of file thisFileName of theFolder to 5
end try
end repeat
end tell
Change the path in the third line of this script
--
If the text file contains the full path of the file, you can use this script.
set textFileContents to choose file
set dataList to paragraphs of (read textFileContents as «class utf8»)
tell application "Finder"
repeat with thisPath in dataList
try -- need a try block to ignore error, in case that the file has been moved or deleted
set label index of (thisPath as POSIX file as alias) to 5
end try
end repeat
end tell
I am trying to tie together a filemaker script that will export PDFs to a temporary space and use and apple script to print them.
I was able to cull together info from this and some other boards to create an applescript that will print the PDFs using Acrobat from a folder.
I have already created a script that finds the Related attachments and exports them to the desktop.
What I'm having trouble with is merging the two.
I need to export the PDF to a folder or temporary place and trigger the apple script to initiate the printing...
This great Suggestion was provided by Chuck of chivalrysoftware.com/…...
Calculate the location to export by appending the filename to Get( TemporaryPath ).
Export the container field contents to FileMaker to that path.
Save the path to a global field in FileMaker
Use an embedded AppleScript to access the global field path
Use AppleScript to open the file in Preview and print it
This is my apple script:
set myFolder to (path to desktop folder as text) & "Print:"
set myfiles to list folder myFolder without invisibles
repeat with myfile in myfiles
set mycurrentfile to ((myFolder as string) & (myfile as string)) as string
batchprint(mycurrentfile)
end repeat
on batchprint(mycurrentfile)
tell application "Adobe Acrobat Pro"
activate -- bring up acrobat
open alias mycurrentfile -- acrobat opens that new file
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Acrobat"
click menu item "Print..." of menu 1 of menu bar item "File"¬
of menu bar 1
click button "Print" of window "Print"
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Acrobat"
click menu item "Close" of menu 1 of menu bar item "File"¬
of menu bar 1
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
tell application "Finder" -- to move the printed file out
set x to ((path to desktop folder as text) & "Printed PDFs:")
if alias x exists then
beep
else
make new folder at the desktop with properties {name:"Printed PDFs"}
end if
move alias mycurrentfile to folder "Printed PDFs"
end tell
end batchprint
My Filemaker script is:
Go to Related Record[
Show only related records; From table: 'Attachments";
Using layout: "Attachements Report' (Attachments); New window
]
Enter Find Mode
Constrain Found Set [Restore]
Sort Records [Restore; No dialog]
# After finding the related attachments and constraining them to the specific type
# we rename and export them to the desktop
Go to Record/Request/Page [First]
Loop
Set Variable [$Path; Value:
Get ( DesktopPath ) & Attachments::Record number & "-"
& Attachment Type List 2::Prefix_z & Lien::Lien_ID_z1]
Export Field Contents [Attachments::file_c; $Path]
Go to Record/Request/Page [Next: Exit after last]
End Loop
Close Window [Current Window]
First of all, the FileMaker part. Create a global text field in one of your tables. It looks like the Attachments table would be the best place for it. I'll call it g_applescript_parameter for this.
Now we're going to use your $Path variable, which given the calc you've provided should be something like /Aslan/Users/chuck/Desktop/1234-ABC4321. I'd recommend appending a .pdf to the end of it since you'll be exporting PDF files. This may help later.
Also, I would recommend that you use Get( TemporaryPath ) instead of Get( DesktopPath ). Anything you place in the temporary folder will be automatically deleted when you quit FileMaker, which means you don't have to write anything to clean up the desktop folder later and you don't have to manually trash them either. Let FileMaker do that work for you. :)
Regardless, FileMaker uses a path of the form filemac:/volumeName/directoryName/fileName (see the notes in the Specify output file dialog box for the Export Field Contents script step). So you should also prepend filemac: to the beginning of your path variable.
All told, your $Path should be set to something like this:
"filemac:" & Get( DesktopPath ) & Attachments::Record number & "-" &
Attachment Type List 2::Prefix_z & Lien::Lien_ID_z1 & ".pdf"
So your export path for FileMaker should work better now. But AppleScript requires a different format for the path to the same file. Given the above, AppleScript's version should be something like /Users/chuck/Desktop/1234-ABC4321.pdf. In other words, everything after the drive name. Fortunately FileMaker can get the drive name with the Get( SystemDrive ) function. For me that function returns /Aslan/. So if we take the $Path variable as defined above and remove filemac: and the name of the drive as defined by Get( SystemDrive ) and add an extra slash at the beginning, that would convert our FileMaker path into an AppleScript path:
"/" & Substitute( $Path; "filemac:" & Get( SystemDrive ); "" )
Use Set Variable to create an $ASPath variable and set it to the above.
Now within your loop store the contents of the $ASPath variable within that global text field:
Loop
Set Variable[ $Path; …]
Set Variable[ $ASPath; …]
Set Field[Attachments::g_applescript_parameter; $ASPath)
Export Field Contents[Attachments::file_c; $Path]
Go to Record/Request/Page[Next; Exit after last]
End Loop
Now AppleScript can extract that information. I'm assuming that given an accurate file being passed to the batchprint function, batchprint will work, so keep that, but remove everything before it and use something like this:
set _pdf_path to contents of cell "g_applescript_parameter" of current layout
batchprint(_pdf_path)
on batchprint(mycurrentfile)
...
end batchprint
Add a Perform AppleScript step after the Export Field Contents step and place the above code in it.
Note that the first line of the above AppleScript will only work as written from within FileMaker. If you're testing this outside of FileMaker in, for example, Script Editor, then you'll need to make that first line read
tell applicaiton "FileMaker" to set _pdf_path ...
You don't need to do this within the Perform AppleScript script step because by default commands are sent to the enclosing FileMaker application.
(I'm a real novice) I was able to create an apple script by culling together bits from other posts. This script batchprints PDFS from a folder using the acrobat pro 11 engine and moves them to a separate folder when complete... While the script works well on one computer where the desktop path is fixed. It must be modified for every different computer we use. Is there a way to script the watch folder in a variable location?
property myFolder : "HD:Users:User:desktop:Print:"
set myfiles to list folder myFolder without invisibles
repeat with myfile in myfiles
set mycurrentfile to ((myFolder as string) & (myfile as string)) as string
batchprint(mycurrentfile)
end repeat
on batchprint(mycurrentfile)
tell application "Adobe Acrobat Pro"
activate -- bring up acrobat
open alias mycurrentfile -- acrobat opens that new file
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Acrobat"
click menu item "Print..." of menu 1 of menu bar item "File" of menu bar 1
click button "Print" of window "Print"
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Acrobat"
click menu item "Close" of menu 1 of menu bar item "File" of menu bar 1
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
tell application "Finder" -- to move the printed file out
set x to (("HD:Users:User:desktop:Printed PDFs") as text)
if alias x exists then
beep
else
make new folder at the desktop with properties {name:"Printed PDFs"}
end if
move alias mycurrentfile to folder "Printed PDFs"
end tell
end batchprint
In AppleScript, you can refer the Desktop folder of the current user with path to Desktop Folder
E.g.:
set myFolder to (path to Desktop Folder as text) & "Print:"
I am very new to using Automator and Applescript.
I would like to use Automator and AppleScript to detect PDF files that are downloaded to the "Downloads" folder and opens a display dialog that allows me to select the file path and move the file. So far, what I have (which isn't right) is something like:
set question to display dialog "Save fileName in..." buttons {"Figuring Relation", "Iconoclasm", "Elsewhere"} default button 3
set answer to button returned of question
if answer is equal to "Figuring Relation" then
tell application "Finder" to move fileName to POSIX file "/Users/mac/Documents/College/Junior/Fall/Art 347 - Figuring Relation"
I want the "Figuring Relation" and "Iconoclasm" buttons to change the file path to a designated file path (I don't want to browse for it), and the "Elsewhere" button to open a Finder window where I can select/browse the path.
If possible, I'm also looking to add the date to the beginning of the file name as "mm-dd_filename".
I am not sure of how to translate the Automator Input to Applescript, or how to include the filename in the display dialog text. Thank you so much for any help.
Here is an example using just applescript. In my example, it assumes you're selecting the file you're wanting to move, but you could easily add something for the script to "Find" all files ending with ".pdf" if you wanted to and then loop through the results.
on run
try
set thisFile to choose file
tell application "Finder" to set currentName to thisFile's name
-- Setting variables for the destinations to be used later
set FiguringRelationPath to (path to documents folder) & "College:Junior:Fall:Art 347 - Figuring Relation:" as string
set IconoclasmPath to (path to documents folder) & "Iconoclasm:" as string
-- Ask the user
set answer to button returned of (display dialog "Save \"" & currentName & "\" in..." buttons {"Figuring Relation", "Iconoclasm", "Elsewhere"} default button 3)
-- Set the destination variable based on the users response to the dialog
if answer is equal to "Figuring Relation" then
set destination to FiguringRelationPath
else if answer is equal to "Iconoclasm" then
set destination to IconoclasmPath
else
set destination to choose folder with prompt "Please select the destination folder" as string
end if
-- Test that the destination directory exists, if not post the error
try
set destination to destination as alias
on error
error ("Destination path " & destination as string) & " doesn't appear to exist"
end try
-- Rename the file with the date prefix
set tDatePrefix to (do shell script "date '+%m-%d'") & "_" as string
tell application "Finder" to set x's name to tDatePrefix & x's name as string
-- Move the file
tell application "Finder" to move thisFile to destination
on error err
activate
display dialog "Error: " & err buttons {"OK"} default button 1
end try
end run