I want to move anything added to the Downloads folder which is an image to an Images folder, anything which is an archive to a Zip folder, PDFs to a PDF folder and so on and so forth, but I can’t seem to get anything to work as expected.
Please help! Thanks.
EDIT: Should also say, I tried using the Find Finder Items action instead and although it worked as expected, it also moved everything in sub-folders of the Downloads folder as well, which is unwanted.
add your path’s and edit the suffixes as you like …
save in folder action scripts and attach it to your folder …
on adding folder items to thisFolder after receiving these_items
set SourceFolder to quoted form of POSIX path of (thisFolder as text)
set thePics to {{"*.jpg", "*.tif", "*.psd", "*.tiff", "*.png"}, {quoted form of "/Path/to/DestFolder/for/Pics/"}} --list of suffixes + DestPath
set thePDFs to {{"*.pdf"}, {quoted form of "/Path/to/DestFolder/for/Pdfs/"}} --same as above
set theZips to {{"*.zip"}, {quoted form of "/Path/to/DestFolder/for/Zips/"}} --...
set theList to {thePics, thePDFs, theZips}
repeat with i from 1 to count of theList
set theSubList to item i of theList
repeat with j from 1 to count item 1 of theSubList
set theSuffix to item j of item 1 of theSubList
tell application "Terminal"
activate
do script "cd " & SourceFolder in window 1
do script "mv -f " & theSuffix & space & (item 2 of theSubList) in window 1
end tell
end repeat
end repeat
end adding folder items to
on adding folder items to thisFolder after receiving these_items
repeat with oneItem in these_items
set Ex to name extension of (info for oneItem)
set theDestination to missing value
if Ex is in {"jpg", "tif", "psd", "tiff", "png"} then
set theDestination to quoted form of "/Path/to/DestFolder/for/Pics/"
else if Ex is "pdf" then
set theDestination to quoted form of "/Path/to/DestFolder/for/Pdfs/"
else if Ex is "zip" then
set theDestination to quoted form of "/Path/to/DestFolder/for/Zips/"
end if
if theDestination is not missing value then
do shell script "/bin/mv -f " & quoted form of POSIX path of oneItem & space & theDestination
end if
end repeat
end adding folder items to
Edit: added some code to avoid an error if theDestination is not defined
Wow, that’s much faster. Thank you very much. What I’m noticing now is a flicker every now and then, as if Finder is briefly switching to itself to check if anything has been added to the folder. What’s that about?
But, seriously, you’ve no idea how long I’ve searched for something that does this. You should put a “Choose source folder” and “Choose destination folder” interface on it and package it up as an application.
