Drop folder action to sort and move files

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Drop folder action to sort and move files

I have a messy desktop. I have been told applescript is kowl 🙂

Can an apple script be made as a folder action to identify and sort files dropped into the folder then have them moved to another folder. ie identify the file is a jpeg and move to pictures folder etc etc.

Posted on Oct 17, 2005 9:25 PM

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Answer 1

Camelot

Level 9

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Oct 17, 2005 9:47 PM in response to Marscus

Yes. It's entirely possible (and trivial) to do this via AppleScript. Something like this should get you started:

property jpegFolder : "Path:to:JPEGs:" -- where JPEGs should be moved to

on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items

repeat with this_item in these_items

set the item_info to the info for this_item

if the file type of item_info is "JPEG" then

tell application "Finder" to move this_item to folder jpegFolder

end if

end repeat

end adding folder items to

Hopefully you can see how to change it to filter other file types.

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Answer 2

Cyclosaurus

Level 6

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Oct 18, 2005 1:48 AM in response to Marscus

If you are running 10.4, another approach is using smart folder. 😉

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