I’ve attached a folder action script to a folder I found here:
Here’s the script:
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
tell application "Finder"
if not (exists folder "Done" of this_folder) then
make new folder at this_folder with properties {name:"Done"}
end if
set the destination_folder to folder "Done" of this_folder as alias
set the destination_directory to POSIX path of the destination_folder
end tell
repeat with i from 1 to number of items in these_items
set this_item to item i of these_items
set the item_info to info for this_item
if this_item is not the destination_folder and ¬
the name extension of the item_info is not in {"zip", "sit"} then
set the item_path to the quoted form of the POSIX path of this_item
set the destination_path to the quoted form of ¬
(destination_directory & (name of the item_info) & ".zip")
do shell script ("/usr/bin/ditto -c -k -rsrc --keepParent " ¬
& item_path & " " & destination_path)
end if
end repeat
end adding folder items to
it runs fine as long as I only move like 8 or 10 files into the folder. But I have hundreds. If I drop all of them on it starts but then just stops after a while. I tried dropping like 20 just so I knew I wasn’t being impatient. Is there a memory limit or time limit for scripts and a way to override such things if they exisit? Thanks!