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I am not a programmer and have been trying to find a way to write an applescript (I would accept javascript - whatever works) to help me with a task I do hundreds of times a day. I will provide as much detail as I can:

When creating a new job we assign the job a Name followed by a letter ID (like D or T) which RARELY would be two letters, followed by a 7 digit number.

Examples:

Name D 1526986

Name Two DK 1526963

I have a set of folders for each kind of project with blank forms, empty folders, etc.

For example, the blank folder "Client Supplied Work" will have:

empty "Proofs" folder

blank " proof" PDF file (inside "Proofs" folder)

empty "786_" folder

empty "Client Supplied" folder

I will copy the "Client Supplied Work" folder into a "Job" folder.

Rename "Client Supplied Work" folder to "Name D 1526986" folder

Enter "Name D 1526986" folder

Rename "786_" folder to "786_Name" folder

Enter "Proofs" folder

Rename " proofs" PDF file to "Name proofs" PDF file

Is it possible to have applescript do this for me? I am not incredibly worried about the jobs with two ID letters. The job names (which are the important information here) can have up to 4 words. I have so far:

tell application "Finder" to set theName to name of item 1 of (get selection)

set the clipboard totheName

I am not sure how to proceed - how to go into the current selected folder (Name D 1526986) to find the "786_" folder and rename using the clipboard, but removing the ID letters and numbers

OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)

Posted on Oct 18, 2018 9:51 AM

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chezarey Author

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Oct 30, 2018 7:16 AM in response to chezarey

tell application "Finder"

activate

--SET JOB FOLDER NAME

set theFile to selection as text

set JobFolderName to name of (theFile as alias)

-- SET JOB NAME

set JobName to ((characters 1 thru -11 of JobFolderName) as string)

--SEARCHES SELECTED JOB FOLDER FOR 144 FOLDER AND SELECTS IT

set target of window 1 to folder "144_" of foldertheFile

--NAME 144 FOLDER

set theFile to selection as text

set TheName to name of (theFile as alias)

set ArtFolderName to ("144_" & JobName)

set name of foldertheFile to ArtFolderName

--SELECT JOB FOLDER

set theFile to selection as text

set target of window 1 to container of foldertheFile

delay 0.1

--SELECT PROOF FOLDER

set theFile to selection as text

set target of window 1 to folder "Proofs" of foldertheFile

--SELECT PROOF PDF

selectfile " proof.pdf" of folder "Proofs" of foldertheFile

delay 0.1

--NAME PROOF PDF

set theFile to selection as text

set TheName to name of (theFile as alias)

set ProofName to (JobName & TheName)

set name of filetheFile to ProofName

end tell

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