Is it possible to create an apple script so that when you are saving a document, it is automatically titled with the date that document was produced (in say, the following format 2015_01_01_) and then you can added your own descriptive title manually?
Thanks.
iMac (27-inch Mid 2011)
It would be much easier to write a script that would add the creation date of every selected file to the name of that file (in the desired format, before or after the name).
Okay - great. Do you have any recommendations as to how I would do this ie. what to put in the Apple Script to make this work?
Thanks for your help.
Try the following script and tell me if it needs some improvements:
tell application "Finder"
repeat with thisItem in (get selection)
if class of thisItem is document file then
set thisCreationDate to my formatDate(creation date of thisItem)
set thisName to name of thisItem
if not (thisName begins with thisCreationDate) then
set name of thisItem to thisCreationDate & space & thisName
end if
end if
end repeat
end tell
on formatDate(theDate) -- for example: 2015-01-01
set theYear to (year of theDate) as text
set theMonth to (month of theDate) as integer
set theDay to day of theDate
if theMonth < 10 then set theMonth to "0" & theMonth
if theDay < 10 then set theDay to "0" & theDay
return theYear & "-" & theMonth & "-" & theDay
end formatDate
Sorry for the delayed reply - thanks so much for this, it works really well, although I have a few queries.
1) How do i set up the apple script so that it will work when I complete a certain key stroke/combination of key strokes in Finder?
2) I've worked out how to set up the apple script using _ instead of - How do I set it up so that there is no space between the date and the title eg. 2015_06_02_Document
Thanks so much.
embolton wrote:
Sorry for the delayed reply - thanks so much for this, it works really well, although I have a few queries.
1) How do i set up the apple script so that it will work when I complete a certain key stroke/combination of key strokes in Finder?
2) I've worked out how to set up the apple script using _ instead of - How do I set it up so that there is no space between the date and the title eg. 2015_06_02_Document
Thanks so much.
1) Try FastScripts (free for up to 10 keyboard shortcuts).
2) Just replace space with "_" in the script.
Apple Script
