Applescript help

[Grimm, Kenneth]

Ryan,

Send me your email, I'll send the ones I wrote to do exactly this -- create
folder structures in several formats.
 
Ken Grimm
IT Systems Manager/Technical Specialist
San Angelo Standard-Times
34 W. Harris
San Angelo TX 76903
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On 4/19/07 3:37 PM, "Strubinger, Ryan" <ryan.strubinger at courierpost.com>
wrote:

> Steve,
> That worked beautifully.  Thanks!
> 
> Ryan Strubinger
> Technology Director
> Hannibal Courier-Post
> 573-248-2744
> www.hannibal.net
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: creator-bounces at wacondatrader.com
> [mailto:creator-bounces at wacondatrader.com] On Behalf Of Steve Mills
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 3:32 PM
> To: creator at wacondatrader.com
> Subject: Re: Applescript help
> 
> On Apr 19, 2007, at 15:04:10, Strubinger, Ryan wrote:
> 
>> I am hoping for some help writing an applescript.  I have never used
>> applescript before, so I am traveling in uncharted waters here.
>> 
>> We store our ads that we build with Creator in a folder structure on a
>> server.  There is a folder for every month and a folder for every day
>> inside that and a set of folder inside of there.  I have one folder
>> structure created the way I want it.  However, now, I want to take
>> that
>> folder structure into an applescript and change the first character of
>> every folder name.  For example, the folders are named 5-01-07 ,
>> 5-02-07
>> ...  I want to change those to 6-01-07 , 6-02-07 ... .  I tried using
>> the Automator that is built into Tiger, but it doesn't allow me to
>> just
>> change the first character of a folder name, as far as I could tell.
> 
> I think OSX ships with a script to do this. Do you have the System
> script menu turned on? If not, go to /Applications/AppleScript/ and
> launch AppleScript Utility. Turn on "Show Script Menu in menu bar"
> and "Show Library scripts". This will give you a script menu on the
> right half of your menubar that you can access from any app. In it,
> there should be a folder named Finder Scripts, and inside should be a
> script named "Replace Text in Item Names". Just open the folder that
> contains the folders you want to rename, choose that script, enter
> the text to find and the text to replace, etc.
> 
> Wait, that blindly replaces the search text *everywhere* throughout
> the item names. That's not what you want. There are 2 other scripts
> in the same folder, "Trim Folder Names" and "Add to Folder Names".
> Run them in that order, first removing the 6 from the front, than
> adding the 7 to the front.
> 
> I know there are better scripts to do exactly what you want, and I
> thought I had one, but I can't find it now. You could check the web,
> places like macscripter.net.
> 
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