Howdy–
I offered up this script to someone yesterday and it seems that they
have found a bug that I never encountered before (but I can duplicate
it) and i can’t seem to figure out why. The code is below my
signature, but here’s what it does and what the problem is:
Basically, it replaces characters of my choosing out of the names of
files and folders. I give it a list of characters to look for and what
to replace them with. It also spits out a couple of reports based upon
what it finds and does. The problem is that when it comes across a
name with an accented character, it tells me the file already exists,
even though all other punctuation works fine.
Any ideas? TIA!
–
Philip Regan
property searchStrings : {"é", "+", "#", "!", "@", "$", "%", "^", "*", "(", ")", "-", "=", "[", "]", "<", ">", "?", " ", ";", "/", "\", """, ",", "{", "}", "'", "."}
property replacementStrings : {"eE", "p", "s", "_", "_", "_", "_", "_", "_", "_", "_", "_", "_", "_", "_", "_", "_", "_", "_", "_", "_", "_", "_", "_", "_", "_", "_", "."}
global search_string
global replacement_string
global periodFlag
set periodFlag to false
tell application "Finder"
set source_folder to choose folder with prompt "FindReplaceIllegalCharacters: Please select directory."
set startTime to (current date)
repeat with x from 1 to (get count of items in searchStrings)
if x = 28 then
set search_string to (item x of searchStrings)
my countPeriods(source_folder)
else
set search_string to (item x of searchStrings)
set replacement_string to (item x of replacementStrings)
my createList(source_folder)
end if
end repeat
set endTime to (current date)
set runTime to (endTime - startTime)
set runTimeText to ("RUNTIME: " & (runTime as text) & " seconds.")
set changedFileLog to (((path to desktop folder) as text) & "ChangedFileLog.txt")
my write_to_file(runTimeText, changedFileLog, true)
if periodFlag is true then
display dialog "Some files had extra periods in them. Please check the log and fix the filenames."
end if
end tell
on countPeriods(item_list) --currently lists all files with a period. Need to coerce filename into a list, and/or view each *character* in turn and see if it's a period.
set periodCount to 0
set the the_items to list folder item_list without invisibles
set item_list to item_list as string
repeat with i from 1 to number of items in the the_items
set the_item to item i of the the_items
set the_item to (item_list & the_item) as alias
set this_info to info for the_item
set item_name to (name of this_info) as string
if item_name contains search_string then
set text item delimiters to search_string
set periodCount to (count text items of item_name) - 1
if periodCount > 1 then
set periodFlag to true
set periodFilename to ((the_item as string) & return)
set periodFilenameLog to (((path to desktop folder) as text) & "FilenamesWithExtraPeriods.txt")
my write_to_file(periodFilename, periodFilenameLog, true)
end if
end if
if folder of this_info is true then
my countPeriods(the_item)
end if
end repeat
end countPeriods
on createList(item_list)
set the the_items to list folder item_list without invisibles
set item_list to item_list as string
repeat with i from 1 to number of items in the the_items
set the_item to item i of the the_items
set the_item to (item_list & the_item) as alias
set this_info to info for the_item
set the item_name to the name of this_info
if item_name contains search_string then
set changedFile to ((the_item as string) & return)
set changedFileLog to (((path to desktop folder) as text) & "ChangedFileLog.txt")
my write_to_file(changedFile, changedFileLog, true)
my replaceString(item_name, the_item, search_string, replacement_string)
end if
if folder of this_info is true then
my createList(the_item)
end if
end repeat
end createList
on replaceString(current_name, the_item, search_string, replacement_string)
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to search_string
set the text_item_list to every text item of the current_name
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to replacement_string
set the new_item_name to the text_item_list as string
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
my set_item_name(the_item, new_item_name)
end replaceString
on set_item_name(this_item, new_item_name)
tell application "Finder"
--activate
set the parent_container_path to (the container of this_item) as text
if not (exists item (the parent_container_path & new_item_name)) then
try
set the name of this_item to new_item_name
on error the error_message number the error_number
if the error_number is -59 then
set the error_message to "This name contains improper characters, such as a colon (:)."
else --the suggested name is too long
set the error_message to error_message -- "The name is more than 31 characters long."
end if
--beep
tell me to display dialog the error_message default answer new_item_name buttons {"Cancel", "Skip", "OK"} default button 3
copy the result as list to {new_item_name, button_pressed}
if the button_pressed is "Skip" then return 0
my set_item_name(this_item, new_item_name)
end try
else --the name already exists
--beep
tell me to display dialog "This name is already taken, please rename." default answer new_item_name buttons {"Cancel", "Skip", "OK"} default button 3
copy the result as list to {new_item_name, button_pressed}
if the button_pressed is "Skip" then return 0
my set_item_name(this_item, new_item_name)
end if
end tell
end set_item_name
on write_to_file(this_data, target_file, append_data)
try
set the target_file to the target_file as text
set the open_target_file to open for access file target_file with write permission
if append_data is false then set eof of the open_target_file to 0
write this_data to the open_target_file starting at eof
close access the open_target_file
return true
on error
try
close access file target_file
end try
return false
end try
end write_to_file