AppleScript to work with trashed files

[brian_donovan]

Hi, Some time ago I made an appleScript that will move all items in the trash to a folder.

tell application "Finder"
	try
		set q to "brian:Desktops:Trashfolder" as alias
		set x to name of every file in trash
		move every item in trash to folder (q)
	end try
end tell

It worked fine for some time, but know I am getting this error:

Finder got an error: An item with the same name already exists in this location.

It may be because I have some flash driver with garbage of there own! I tried to add some code to the script:

set x to name of every file in trash whose disk is brian

but it does not work… Any idea in how to specify the disk?

Thank you for your time!

Brian

[divster]

Hi Brian

You can change the move line so that it will overwrite duplicates:

tell application "Finder"
	--try
	set q to "Macintosh HD:Users:UserName:Desktop:Trashfolder:" as alias
	set x to name of every file in trash
	move every item in trash to folder (q) with replacing
	--end try
end tell

but your path to the Desktop wasn’t correct anyway:
“brian:Desktops:Trashfolder”
Don’t know if that was just for the example shown here