At one time, a user thought file names like “03R30425I.ART/PHOTO” were acceptable. Now, I have thousands of these garbled file names that need updating. The down side is that some are Illustrator files that need to be updated in Illustrator and some are Photoshop files that need to updated as TIFs. I am planning a basic structure, but not sure if it is the most efficient for this many files.
Script outline:
Probably needs to process an entire folder, looking for Photoshop and Illustrator files, saving them as updated files in their respective apps.
Old file names need to have the garbage after the dot removed and saved with modern naming convention.
A list of the unusual suspects:
.Art(with or without /anything) = .eps
.AA = .eps (sometimes _1.eps, probably no easy fix, .eps will be primary)
.AB = _2.eps
.AC = _3.eps
.AD = _4,eps
.Art1 = _A.eps
.Art2 = _B.eps
.Art3 = _C.eps
.Art4 = _D.eps
.A1 = _A.eps
.A2 = _B.eps
.A3 = _C.eps
.A4 = _D.eps
Am I going in the right direction for this? Any suggestions to improve speed?
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Previous attempts generated file names like “03R30425I.ART.eps” and “03R30425IAA.ART” where the .ART. and AA. before the dot need to be removed.
I do have one basic script that I picked up to do the simple change extension function, but it does not modify the files’ contents. Also, I have noticed that simply changing the extension on old Photoshop files actually modifies the contents, like odd resolution and dimension changes. So, the workflow should include actually opening and ‘save as’ to incorporate the name change.
set thePath to choose folder with prompt "Select folder to rename files in:"
set ext to text returned of (display dialog "Extension to Replace:" default answer "")
set extNew to text returned of (display dialog "Replace With:" default answer "")
tell application "Finder"
try
set the datlist to files of thePath whose name extension is ext
end try
repeat with dat in datlist
set ext_length to count (get name extension of dat)
try
set name of dat to ((text 1 thru -(ext_length + 1) of (get name of dat)) & extNew)
on error e
display dialog e
end try
end repeat
end tell
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Here’s a start to what I think could become a working script, but is taking time for me to sort out what to do first.
Here’s a list of the sort of file names I am up against:
03R20409N.ART
03R20409N.ART/PHOTO
03R20409N.ART/PTS
03R20409N.ART.eps
03R20409N.AA
03R20409N.AB
03R20409N.AC
03R20409N.AD
03R20409N.A1
03R20409N.A2
03R20409N.A3
03R20409N.A4
03R20409N.Art1
03R20409N.Art4
03R20409N.Art4
03R20409N.Art4
Here is what those should look like:
03R20409N.eps
03R20409N.tif
03R20409N.tif
03R20409N.eps
03R20409N_1.eps
03R20409N_2.eps
03R20409N_3.eps
03R20409N_4.eps
03R20409N_A.eps
03R20409N_B.eps
03R20409N_C.eps
03R20409N_D.eps
03R20409N_A.eps
03R20409N_B.eps
03R20409N_C.eps
03R20409N_D.eps
Its starting to look more and more daunting with the more incoming requirements of the script.
I think I need the long weekend coming up!
set inputFolder to choose folder with prompt "Choose an input folder."
set folderName to name of (info for inputFolder)
tell application "Finder" to set pshopFiles to files of folder inputFolder whose name extension is in {"tif", "tiff", "ART1", "ART2", "ART3", "ART4", "ART/PTS"} or kind is in {"Photoshop", "Adobe Photoshop EPS file"}
tell application "Finder" to set IllFiles to files of folder inputFolder whose name extension is in {"ART", "ART1", "ART2", "ART3", "ART4"} or kind is in {"Adobe Illustrator", "Illustrator", "Adobe Illustrator 9"}
repeat with oneFile in pshopFiles
tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS3"
activate
--open oneFile
set ix to 0
set ix to ix + 1
set Ext to name extension of oneFile
set newName to ix as text
set name of contents of oneFile to newName & "." & Ext
--modify in Photoshop CS3 and change file name in inputFolder as a TIF file. Replace the original oneFile or delete it.
end tell
end repeat
repeat with oneFile in IllFiles
tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
activate
set user interaction level to never interact
open oneFile with options {update legacy text:true} without dialogs
set ix to 0
set ix to ix + 1
set Ext to name extension of oneFile
set newName to ix as text
set name of contents of oneFile to newName & "." & Ext
--modify in Photoshop CS3 and change file name in inputFolder as an EPS. Either replace oneFile or delete it.
end tell
end repeat
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if i where change the name extension i would go for something like this but it is just personal choice!
tell application "Finder"
set t to every file of (choose folder)
repeat with i in t
if name of i ends with ".ART.eps" then
set creator type of i to "ART5"
set thename to name of i
set theext to ".ART.eps"
set OldDelims to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to theext
set newText to text items of thename
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ".eps"
set newText to newText as text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to OldDelims
set name of i to newText
end if
end repeat
end tell
i added the bit about creator type to see if this would be easier for you instead of actually opening the file in its native application just to save back down again.
we get a lot of files in that don’t know who the belong to so i use a small script to change the creator type and everything seems to be okay!!
just a thought,!!
the thing with having so many differently named files means your script will never be very small or compact.
Thanks Pidge! This never seems to be as simple as I hope, but this script will be valuable to a few different groups in other divisions of my organization. I’ll keep the thread updated as I go, probably just as I have free time.
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Here is a better outline of what I am doing with the script. This one seems to be going slow as I have too many other projects and tasks currently…
on fileName() --This part will expand greatly to cover as many of the variables in the old file names and change them to the current naming conventions. All the work for turning the original filename into the new filename will be done here. Get the filename of oneFile and update.
tell application "Finder"
set t to every file of (choose folder)
repeat with i in t
if name of i ends with ".ART.eps" then
set creator type of i to "ART5"
set thename to name of i
set theext to ".ART.eps"
set OldDelims to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to theext
set newText to text items of thename
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ".eps"
set newText to newText as text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to OldDelims
set name of i to newText
end if
end repeat
end tell
end fileName
set inputFolder to choose folder with prompt "Choose an input folder."
set folderName to name of (info for inputFolder)
tell application "Finder" to set pshopFiles to files of folder inputFolder whose name extension is in {"tif", "tiff", "ART/PTS"} or kind is in {"Photoshop", "Adobe Photoshop EPS file"}
tell application "Finder" to set IllFiles to files of folder inputFolder whose name extension is in {"eps", "ai", "ART", "ART1", "ART2", "ART3", "ART4"} or kind is in {"Adobe Illustrator", "Illustrator", "Adobe Illustrator 9"}
repeat with oneFile in pshopFiles
tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS3"
activate
open file oneFile
--modify in Photoshop CS3 and change file name in inputFolder as a TIF file. Replace the original oneFile or delete it.
fileName()
--save as TIF to inputFolder turning old name of oneFile into the new name
end tell
end repeat
repeat with oneFile in IllFiles
tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
activate
set user interaction level to never interact
open oneFile with options {update legacy text:true} without dialogs
--modify in Photoshop CS3 and change file name in inputFolder as an EPS. Either replace oneFile or delete it.
my fileName()
--save as EPS to inputFolder turning old name of oneFile into the new name
end tell
end repeat
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