Moving a file (is this post too easy?)

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#1

Hi everyone.
I’m building a new application for my site. It generates jpeg from my isight.
For now, actual release of “isightcapture” (http://www.intergalactic.de/hacks.html) apparently crates images on root of my Mac (I can’t undestand if this has any controls about this).
So, Script works fine, but problem is when I try to move jpeg from root to my picture folder.

Any halp?


set enne to a_uno
	set isight to the quoted form of POSIX path of (path to resource "isightcapture")
	repeat
		set enne to (enne - 1)
		tell application "Finder"
			set mese to month of (current date) as string
			set giorno to day of (current date) as string
			set ora to time of (current date) as string
			set date_stamp to (mese & giorno & ora)
			set date_stamp to date_stamp & ".jpg"
			
			do shell script isight & space & "-t jpg" & space & date_stamp
			delay 1
			
		-- HERE YOU ARE THE PROBLEM!!!!!!
		move date_stamp to (path to pictures folder)
		end tell
		
		delay a_due
		if enne is 0 then exit repeat
	end repeat
#2

Buona sera, Matteo, molto lieto di rivederti :slight_smile:

It is very simple, you can specify the whole path as argument for isightcapture,
the date string can also be set easier.

set enne to a_uno
set isight to the quoted form of POSIX path of (path to resource "isightcapture")
repeat
	set enne to (enne - 1)
	tell (current date) to set date_stamp to ((its month as string) & (day as string) & (words 1 thru 3 of time string as string))
	set date_stamp to quoted form of (POSIX path of (path to pictures folder) & date_stamp & ".jpg")
	
	do shell script isight & space & "-t jpg" & space & date_stamp
	
	delay a_due
	if enne is 0 then exit repeat
end repeat
#3

Ciao StefanK, buonasera anche a te. Come stai? :slight_smile:

Put the right path on the shell script is a simply, like fantastic idea. I feel so stupid to do not thinked to it :frowning:
But there are an error on one of your row. Script give me an error, I think that the shell find strange space…

So the right script is this one

set enne to a_uno
	set isight to the quoted form of POSIX path of (path to resource "isightcapture")
	repeat
		set enne to (enne - 1)
		set mese to month of (current date) as string
		set giorno to day of (current date) as string
		set ora to time of (current date) as string
		set date_stamp to (mese & giorno & ora)
		display dialog date_stamp
		
		set date_stamp to quoted form of (POSIX path of (path to pictures folder) & date_stamp & ".jpg")
		
		do shell script isight & space & "-t jpg" & space & date_stamp
		
		delay a_due
		if enne is 0 then exit repeat
	end repeat

Are you thinked that it’s more expensive than yours? I know…

#4

the problem is the italian date format settings (or actually the german ones ;))
this does it:

...
tell (current date) to set date_stamp to ((its month as string) & (day as string) & (time as string))
...

oppure (or)

tell (current date) to set date_stamp to ((its month as string) & day & "_" & its hours & its minutes & its seconds)