I made a little clean-up script a while ago, but it dosen’t seem to work on my 10.5.8 machine. Any idea why?
property image_extension_list : {"tif", "tiff", "gif", "png", "pict", "pct", "jpg", "jpeg", "bmp", "psd"}
property video_extension_list : {"avi", "mov", "mpg", "mpeg", "wmv"}
property audio_extension_list : {"mp3", "wav", "mp4", "aac", "m4a", "m4b", "ogg", "midi", "flp"}
property archive_extension_list : {"zip", "sit", "tar", "tgz", "gz", "bzip2", "rar"}
property documents_extension_list : {"doc", "pdf", "txt", "xls", "ppt", "pages", "rtf"}
property application_extension_list : {"dmg", "hqx", "toast", "app"}
property image_foldername : "Images"
property video_foldername : "Video"
property audio_foldername : "Audio"
property archive_foldername : "Archives"
property documents_foldername : "Documents"
property application_foldername : "Applications"
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items
repeat with this_item in added_items
tell application "Finder"
if (the name extension of the this_item is in the image_extension_list) then
my makeamove(this_item, this_folder, image_foldername)
end if
if (the name extension of the this_item is in the video_extension_list) then
my makeamove(this_item, this_folder, video_foldername)
end if
if (the name extension of the this_item is in the audio_extension_list) then
my makeamove(this_item, this_folder, audio_foldername)
end if
if (the name extension of the this_item is in the archive_extension_list) then
my makeamove(this_item, this_folder, archive_foldername)
end if
if (the name extension of the this_item is in the documents_extension_list) then
my makeamove(this_item, this_folder, documents_foldername)
end if
if (the name extension of the this_item is in the application_extension_list) then
my makeamove(this_item, this_folder, application_foldername)
end if
end tell
end repeat
end adding folder items to
on makeamove(this_item, root_folder, target_foldername)
tell application "Finder"
if not (exists folder target_foldername of root_folder) then
make new folder at root_folder with properties {name:target_foldername}
end if
set the target_folder to folder target_foldername of root_folder
my resolve_conflicts(this_item, root_folder, target_folder)
move file this_item to the target_folder
end tell
end makeamove
on resolve_conflicts(this_item, root_folder, target_folder) --renames the item if dublicate exists in target folder
tell application "Finder"
set file_extension to the name extension of this_item
set the file_name to the name of this_item
if the file_extension is "" then
set the trimmed_name to the file_name
else
set the trimmed_name to text 1 thru -((length of file_extension) + 2) of the file_name
end if
if (exists document file file_name of target_folder) then
set the name_increment to 1
repeat
set the new_name to (the trimmed_name & "_" & (name_increment as string) & "." & file_extension) as string
if not (exists document file new_name of the target_folder) then
set the name of document file file_name of folder root_folder to the new_name
exit repeat
else
set the name_increment to the name_increment + 1
end if
end repeat
end if
end tell
return the file_name
end resolve_conflicts
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