Sorry if this has been covered here before, I have spent a while with this on Google (which ought to address all forum posts here) and failed to find anything that works in the way I would like, and I haven’t been able to modify any of the scripts - being a total novice!
What I want to do is select a file or files in FInder, and use Services to select all files of the same extension in that folder. This would be useful at home on 10.7 as well as in the office with 10.6.8.
This script will allow me to perform multiple functions with these selections, for example deleting backup files or organising files of a type to copy/move them to other folders.
I have been trying to use the following script and, (most likely for very obvious reasons) utterly failed!
If anyone can fix this, or suggest a better or faster way, I would be very grateful!
on run {file_name, parameters}
tell application "Finder"
get file_name as string
set selectedCount to count items in selectionList
if selectedCount > 0 then
set nameExtension to name extension of item 1 in selectionList
select (every item where name extension ¬
is nameExtension) of (file selected_file)
end if
end tell
end run
Hi,
maybe this will get you started…
set theFolder to path to desktop
-- or
-- set theFolder to choose folder
set allFiles to list folder theFolder
-- or
(*
tell application "Finder"
set theSelection to selection
-- then don't forget to parse the selection and list every folder in it
-- so you end up with a list containing just files
end tell
*)
-- you could of course use Automator and then save it as a service,
-- but since I don't use Automator very often, I would have to look
-- it up. Plain AppleScript should do just fine as well....
set filesWithExtensionPDF to filterFilesByExtension(allFiles, "PDF")
--> List of pdf files in folder
on filterFilesByExtension(theFiles, theExtension)
set res to {}
repeat with thisFile in theFiles
ignoring case
set thisFile to thisFile as text
if thisFile ends with "." & theExtension then
set end of res to thisFile
end if
end ignoring
end repeat
return res
end filterFilesByExtension
Regards
Hi,
try this.
In the service I’ve selected “Service receives selected files or folders in Finder”
The only action is a “Run AppleScript” action containing this code
on run {input, parameters}
set extensionList to {}
if (count input) > 0 then
repeat with anItem in input
tell application "System Events" to set nameExtension to name extension of anItem
if nameExtension is not missing value and nameExtension is not in extensionList then
set end of extensionList to nameExtension
end if
end repeat
tell application "Finder"
set parentFolder to container of item 1 of input
select (every item of parentFolder whose name extension is in extensionList)
end tell
end if
return input
end run
you can select a single file or multiple files with multiple file extensions.
The script doesn’t consider items without any file extension, e.g. folders
Thanks a lot guys!
The first response I was still working through when I received Stefan’s.
Unfortunately this doesn’t seem to work the same for all extensions. I have created a new Automator Service which receives selected files or folders in Finder, with the ‘Run Applescript’ action attached to it.
If I select a file with an msg extension, it works fine. If I select a file with an skb extension (SketchUp backup file), it selects all the files, but generates an error.
It’s also very slow, to the point that its use is limited. I timed 22 seconds to select all the png files on a network volume inside a folder with a total of 56 items.
Is this because the files are on a networked volume, or is it that the script isn’t quite as efficient as it could be?