Looking at it, it seem it should work. but it doesn’t. The idea is to pass file names through an array and the matches will be moved to a specific folder. Any help you can give would be great.
try
tell application "Finder"
set Keepers to {"Stargate", "Heroes"}
set the_files to every item of entire contents of folder "∞ New Downloads ∞" of disk "Videos"
repeat with this_file in the_files
if this_file begins with Keepers then move this_file to folder "∞ To Be Sorted ∞" of disk "Videos"
end repeat
end tell
end try
It doesn’t work because of 2 reasons.
¢ The syntax begins with cannot be used with a list
¢ this_file is a file (an object), it cannot be compared with a string or a list
by the way: while developing scripts remove any try blocks to get error messages
Try something like this
set Keepers to {"Stargate", "Heroes"}
tell application "Finder"
set the_files to every item of entire contents of folder "∞ New Downloads ∞" of disk "Videos"
repeat with this_file in the_files
if name of this_file is in Keepers then move this_file to folder "∞ To Be Sorted ∞" of disk "Videos"
end repeat
end tell
or
tell application "Finder"
set the_files to every item of entire contents of folder "∞ New Downloads ∞" of disk "Videos"
repeat with this_file in the_files
if name of this_file begins with "Stargate" or name of this_file begins with "Heroes" then move this_file to folder "∞ To Be Sorted ∞" of disk "Videos"
end repeat
end tell
