Gather Contents of certain file type

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#1

Hello fellow scripters (who are way better than I),

I would like to gather all images on my desktop, and open a new finder window with only the images so that I may do what I would like to do with them. Maybe I, in the future, can bend the script to gather other types of files for future use.

This is what I have so far.

set imgs to false
tell application "Finder"
	set findimages to every item of desktop
	repeat with thisItem in findimages
		if name extension of thisItem is "jpg" or "png" then
			set imgs to thisItem as alias
			exit repeat
		end if
	end repeat
	
end tell

tell application "Finder"
	activate
	select window of desktop
end tell

The code won’t work :frowning:

Thanks for all your help people :slight_smile:

Model: MacBook
AppleScript: 2.2
Browser: Safari 525.13
Operating System: Mac OS X (10.5)

#2

Well here’s how you create the list if images

set extList to {"jpg", "png"}
tell application "Finder"
	try
		set imgs to (every file of desktop whose name extension is in extList) as alias list
	on error
		set imgs to (every file of desktop whose name extension is in extList) as alias as list
	end try
end tell

Now as to the second question your guess is as good as mine. You would have to figure out how to generate a find window and just display the results you want, but I found no elegant way to do so. The question though is what are you trying to do that you need them in a lone finder window? You already have the list generated in the script, can’t the the next step be performed there?

#3

Ah your script is so simple yet so amazing, I am definitely learning from this.

The reason I would utilize such a script would be to find the mass clutter of desktop images, gather only the images of the sort, and allow me to choose which ones to keep or delete.

Would there be away to make this happen? Also be able to put into a dialog box list with the option to delete the image/images chosen (using CMD as the select feature or something similar?)

Model: MacBook
AppleScript: 2.2
Browser: Safari 525.13
Operating System: Mac OS X (10.5)

#4

Hey Chris, give this a try =)

set extList to {"jpg", "png"}
set {tid, text item delimiters} to {text item delimiters, return}
tell application "Finder"
	try
		set imgs to paragraphs of ((every file of desktop whose name extension is in extList) as Unicode text)
		set imgs2delete to choose from list imgs with prompt "Please select the images to delete." with multiple selections allowed
		repeat with aImg in imgs2delete
			move aImg to trash
		end repeat
	end try
end tell
set text item delimiters to tid
#5

Oh man that sure did the trick !

I have an idea - What if I clicked one image in the list, and a drawer opened up showing the contents of that image? - That would have to be done in Xcode though.

man, Thank you for your help ! It looks so easy when I read it but it is like wow when you think about doing it :slight_smile:

#6

Always glad to help :smiley:

You’re right though it would require Xcode, but it actually shouldn’t be very difficult! Give it a crack and see what happens!