yuvi Posted February 5, 2013 Posted February 5, 2013 My file management scheme requires me to add prefixes to the names of files, which are then picked up by Hazel and handled in various ways. My applescript skills are admittedly crude, but here is my workflow (driven by a file action) to prompt the user for a prefix string and then add that string to the names of all the selected files. Right now, the default prefix in the dialog box is "archive-" but that's easily changed from within the simple applescript.The workflow is here: http://d.pr/f/bDxqBut if you just want a peek at my weak applescripting chops, here you go: on alfred_script(q) set prefixValue to display dialog "Enter prefix string: " default answer "archive-" set AppleScript's text item delimiters to tab set fileList to every text item of q repeat with theFilename in fileList set theFile to POSIX file theFilename tell application "Finder" set fileAlias to theFile as alias set fileName to name of fileAlias set newFilename to (text returned of prefixValue & fileName) set name of file theFile to newFilename end tell end repeat end alfred_script Enjoy! Jono 1
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