System Events create Folder Actions stop suddenly

Hello
I has implemented a applescript in order to backup files to a external HD using folder actions
This script attaches the same script in each new folder recusively, and it adds a new one Folder Action with the same name of the folder.
1 - When a use the Finder to copy around 4000 files and 500 folder, the folder action list increases slowly, but i did not had so much patience to wait the proceeding to complete.
2- When i use the automator with shell script action execution, to copy the files and folder, the process finalizes with success, but the folder action list stops with 10 items instead of 569, that is the number of folders and subfolders. So i do not know what is happening...
3- So I changed the automator action to execute a applescript that executes a shell script, the folder action list stops with 200 folder action approximately. So i do not know what happen too.
What can i solve this backwardness problem?
There are a limit of amount to create of folder action ?

There are another user with tha same problems: BookOfPower
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1233099?start=15&tstart=0
Because applescript is not reliable ?

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Is there a way to tell the OS to attach a folder action when the folder is created?
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on opening folder this_folder
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set the sidebar width of the window of this_folder to 0
end tell
end opening folder
BTW, I didn't find any global variable that I could modify to do this in a simpler fashion.
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... and it works!!!
I will give you a "Solved on this", Budgie! This AppleScript language is pretty amazing when you know how to use it.
I had to make some modifs, because it stopped working when the action was already attached to some folders, and this caused major problems. I will also have to work on it to optimize it, i.e. for example attach the action when a folder is opened (if it's not already attached) in order to save time, because in its present state, the script attaches the action to each folder in the target window.. But the main difficulty was to attach an action automatically!
So now both scripts are in my own User library and look like this:
Script to attach action, most of it your code :-)
on adding folder items to this_folder
try
tell application "Finder"
set _Script to "LaBomba:Users:rgauthier:Library:Scripts:Folder Action Scripts:nosidebar.scpt"
repeat with each_folder in (get every folder of this_folder)
tell application "System Events"
try
attach action to (each_folder as alias) using (_Script as alias)
end try
end tell
end repeat
end tell
end try
end adding folder items to
... and my own very simple folder action:
on opening folder this_folder
tell application "Finder"
set the sidebar width of the window of this_folder to 0
end tell
end opening folder
I will come back to you in a day or two (or three, time is whort...) with my final code.
Thanks once again for a fast and precise answer!
RTP
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6/11/11 7:44:54 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/Folder Actions Dispatcher.app/Contents/MacOS/Folder Actions Dispatcher[91] CPSGetProcessInfo(): This call is deprecated and should not be called anymore.
6/11/11 7:44:54 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/Folder Actions Dispatcher.app/Contents/MacOS/Folder Actions Dispatcher[91] CPSPBGetProcessInfo(): This call is deprecated and should not be called anymore.
6/11/11 7:44:54 PM /System/Library/CoreServices/AppleScript Runner.app/Contents/MacOS/AppleScript Runner[264] CPSGetFrontProcess(): This call is deprecated and should not be called anymore.
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6/11/11 8:20:31 PM /Applications/AppleScript/Folder Actions Setup.app/Contents/MacOS/Folder Actions Setup[420] CPSPBGetProcessInfo(): This call is deprecated and should not be called anymore.
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Folder Actions are set up a bit differently in Leopard (they use an AppleScript wrapper), and several actions have been updated to use new technologies available in Snow Leopard. Looking at some of your console logs, it looks like some actions or workflows were just copied over from Snow Leopard. When changing versions like that, you should rebuild the workflows so that they link to the correct actions, and check added actions for any dependencies (an action won't be loaded if it requires resources that are not available).
Resaving your Folder Action workflow as a Folder Action Plug-in should do the trick.

AppleScript 10.9.0 System Events -10006 Update property list file item

Have AppleScript that runs without error on Mountain Lion 10.8.5, but errors out on Mavericks 10.9.0.
At end of script, property list items need to be updated and this is when error occurs.
Put together a subset of the script, see below) that get the error
Statement reads "set value of property list item "ArrayList001" to ArrayList001"
Text of error:
     error "System Events got an error: 'xxx.plist' is not a property list file."
     number -10006 from contents of property list file "xxx05.plist"
=============================================================================
property myPListFile : "cbmck05.plist"
property myPListFilePath : ""
property constPreviousRunDay : "PreviousRunDay"
on run
   set today to "Date01" as string
          set List001 to {}
          set List002 to {}
          set myPListFilePath to ""
          repeat with i from 1 to 8
                    set end of List001 to (i * 2) as string
          end repeat
          set myPListFilePath to path to desktop folder from user domain as string
          set fileMyPList to (myPListFilePath & myPListFile) as string
clear_file(fileMyPList)
-- First time! need to initalize
          tell application "System Events"
-- create an empty property list dictionary item
                    set the parent_dictionary to make new property list item with properties {kind:record}
-- create new property list file using the empty dictionary list item as contents
                    set new_plistfile to ¬
make new property list file with properties {contents:parent_dictionary, name:fileMyPList}
make new property list item at end of property list items of contents of new_plistfile ¬
with properties {kind:string, name:constPreviousRunDay, value:today}
make new property list item at end of property list items of contents of new_plistfile ¬
                              with properties {kind:list, name:"ArrayList001"}
make new property list item at end of property list items of contents of new_plistfile ¬
                              with properties {kind:list, name:"ArrayList002"}
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          set previousRunDate to today
          set xxList to (repopulate_lists())
          set ArrayList001 to List001
          set ArrayList002 to List002
-- save info in the plist file
          tell application "System Events"
                    tell property list file fileMyPList
                              tell contents
                                        set value of property list item constPreviousRunDay to previousRunDate
                                        set value of property list item "ArrayList001" to ArrayList001     --   <<< ------- error caused by the statement
                                        set value of property list item "ArrayList002" to ArrayList002
                              end tell
                    end tell
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end run
-- ==========================================
on repopulate_lists()
          set newList to {}
          set List002 to {}
          repeat with i from 1 to 8
                    set end of newList to i as string
          end repeat
          set List001 to newList
          return List001
end repopulate_lists
-- ==========================================
-- Does the file exist?
on fileExists(f)
          try
f as string as alias
                    return true
          on error errMsg number errNum
                    return false
          end try
end fileExists
-- Delete the files if exist
on clear_file(aFile)
          if fileExists(aFile) then
                    tell application "Finder"
                              set resultObject to delete aFile
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-- version 1.1, Daniel A. Shockley
-- 1.1 - rough work-around for Mavericks bug where using a list for property list item value wipes out data
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-- Convert each list item into a string and escape it for the shell command:
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                    set plistItemValue_forShell to ""
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                              set plistItemValue_forShell to plistItemValue_forShell & space & quoted form of (oneItem as string)
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                    set shellCommand to "defaults write " & quoted form of POSIX path of plistPath & space & plistItemName & space & "-array" & space & plistItemValue_forShell
do shell script shellCommand
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          else -- handle normally, since we aren't dealing with Mavericks list bug:
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-- create an empty property list dictionary item
                              set the parent_dictionary to make new property list item with properties {kind:record}
                              try
                                        set plistFile to property list file plistPath
                              on error errMsg number errNum
                                        if errNum is -1728 then
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                                        else
                                                  error errMsg number errNum
                                        end if
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                              tell plistFile
                                        try
                                                  tell property list item plistItemName
                                                            set value to plistItemValue
                                                  end tell
                                        on error errMsg number errNum
                                                  if errNum is -10006 then
make new property list item at ¬
                                                                      end of property list items of contents of plistFile ¬
with properties ¬
                                                                      {kind:class of plistItemValue, name:plistItemName, value:plistItemValue}
                                                  else
                                                            error errMsg number errNum
                                                  end if
                                        end try
                              end tell
                              return true
                    end tell
          end if
end plistWrite

Folder Actions will not work - tried everything

Recently Folder Actions simply stopped working on 10.6.4. They worked fine before then recently just stopped working.
I've tried everything I can think of, including:
1. completely removing enabling & disabling & enabling folder actions through the setup app.
2. trashing folder actions plist files in user domain and relaunching
3. disabling related launchd processes with lingon
4. trashing launch agents in user domain and also trying to unload them in terminal
5. trying to kill the folder actions dispatcher process in activity monitor (just relaunches, as it should)
6. emptying system caches including dyld shared cache using cocktail
7. doing most of the above and restarting
It's driving me nuts. Any other ideas?
here's some entries from syslog:
8/2/10 9:31:37 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[269] (com.apple.FolderActions.folders) Throttling respawn: Will start in 6 seconds
8/2/10 9:37:29 AM Folder Actions Setup[4403] * WARNING: Method selectedRowEnumerator in class NSTableView is deprecated. It will be removed in a future release and should no longer be used.
8/2/10 9:43:37 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[269] (com.apple.FolderActions.enabled[309]) Exited: Killed
8/2/10 9:46:23 AM [0x0-0x3a03a].com.apple.systemevents[360] com.apple.FolderActions.enabled: Already loaded
8/2/10 9:52:07 AM Folder Actions Setup[1083] * WARNING: Method selectedRowEnumerator in class NSTableView is deprecated. It will be removed in a future release and should no longer be used.
8/2/10 9:52:16 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[269] (com.apple.FolderActions.folders) Throttling respawn: Will start in 7 seconds
8/2/10 9:53:02 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[269] (com.apple.FolderActions.folders) Throttling respawn: Will start in 1 seconds
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8/2/10 10:01:42 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[269] (com.apple.FolderActions.folders) Throttling respawn: Will start in 9 seconds
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8/2/10 10:10:25 AM Folder Actions Setup[676] * WARNING: Method selectedRowEnumerator in class NSTableView is deprecated. It will be removed in a future release and should no longer be used.
8/2/10 10:10:27 AM com.apple.FolderActions.enabled[680] launchctl: Couldn't stat("/Users/lryter/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.FolderActions.folders.plist"): No such file or directory
8/2/10 10:10:27 AM com.apple.FolderActions.enabled[680] nothing found to unload
8/2/10 10:10:38 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[268] (com.apple.FolderActions.folders) Throttling respawn: Will start in 8 seconds
8/2/10 10:13:17 AM sudo[943] lryter : TTY=ttys000 ; PWD=/Users/lryter ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/launchctl unload -w /Users/lryter/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.FolderActions.enabled.plist
8/2/10 10:14:01 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[268] (com.apple.FolderActions.folders) Throttling respawn: Will start in 4 seconds
8/2/10 10:14:14 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[268] (com.apple.FolderActions.folders) Throttling respawn: Will start in 1 seconds

I finally go Folders Action to work, after being unable to use it even for a simple beep for years now.
Here is what I did:
1. Changed permissions to 755 for the following folder and two contained files (note that 775 didn't work for me)
~/Library/LaunchAgents/
~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.FolderActions.enabled.plist
~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.FolderActions.folders.plist
2. Changed the following lines within ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.FolderActions.enabled.plist (using TextWrangler)
from:
<key>OnDemand</key>
<false/>
to:
<key>OnDemand</key>
<true/>
Prior to the permissions changes within #1 above, the value of <true/> kept getting changed back to <false/> by something in the system... and though
there was improvement by the permissions changes, the following console message appeared until false was changed to true.
com.apple.FolderActions.enabled[4127] launchctl: Error unloading: com.apple.FolderActions.folders
At this point true is staying true, and not being changed by unknown forces to false, and the above message is not appearing.
3. The only other thing I did prior to #1 and #2 above, was to run the script (unsaved),
tell application "/System/Library/CoreServices/Folder Actions Dispatcher.app" to tick
This little tell line caused something to occur where my Folder Action surprised me and worked for the first time though it took about 30 seconds and was erratic,
sometimes performing, sometimes not, though if I would do move something into the folder to trigger the action that should occur, and did not occur, then at the point
running the above tell line or script would cause the action to occur.
4. At this point I don't fool with the tell line or script from #3, and it seems that systemevents has gotten involved, as well as launchd, and with my simple Folder Action script
I'm getting the folder action within 10 seconds compared to 30 to 45 if ever seconds.
5. This is still too early to tell if this is the wonder pill I've needed since Leopard, and now Snow Leopard (and maybe Tiger as well: I forget when I even tried Folder Actions).
There was a time when I moved things around, so that the items normally found in the former AppleScript folder, were placed elsewhere in subfolders, so I don't know if that lead to this...
because I could get Folder Actions to work on Macs in the Applestore, but not my own Mac. Watching the console messages was helpful. I don't think it's a big concern that
deprecated messages are found sometimes. That's a just a normal part of the constantly rebuilding of things that goes on. It's more like a reminder that we've got an upgraded
OEM part were going to start using, and the older part won't be available after such and such date, so program accordingly, and in the meantime drive.

Chained Folder Actions

I am getting a headache by now trying to figure out how to do a fairly simple thing...
I have created applesript that sorts my download folder
So i have couple of folders in there and any file that goes into
downloads folder is moved to coresponding folder based on extension
say i have 4 folders
-Media
-Text
-Install Disks
-Other
i then decided to take it one step further
and created folder action that takes files in a given folder and
puts them in a folder with corresponding date
so to put it simple say there is blah_blah.mp3 that i copy to downloads folder
my two scripts idealy if they would cooperate should work like this
___________________________\/ DateSort folder action \/
"Download folder" -->> "media folder" -->> "\[current date\] folder"
___\^download folder action\^
the problem thought they work separately but when i use them together
as i described... "DateSort" for some reason does not enter
^repeat with this_item in added_items^
to be honest added_items it such use case is blank for unknown reason...
And the question that is bothering me is WHYYYYYYY?
(because if simply put a file into "media folder" it works like charm...)

I know it is very late to reply... But my attemps to create a chained folder script system did not work very well, and i just ended up baking the operations from the second script into the first.
Seems like on *new folder item* does not handle files placed by another apple script. Further working on it I've forsaken the idea of using folder script paradigm alltogether, It is very unreliable. Especially so when trying to deal with download folder. There are clashes all over the place. For example i dont want to touch safari/chrom download chache files, but If I dont treat them the first time around the script will never touch them again.
So I ended up writing an app that does all this and have it being triggered by launchd every so often. Much easier to handle. If you are still inrpterested i can give you my current version. It has much cleaner code, and it finally works without a hinge.

Create Folder with the name of expense report number in SHAREPOINT ?

Hi All,
iExpence - In expense report confirmation page. There is custom link.
Requirement
When user click on link, system should create folder with the name of expense report number in SHAREPOINT and copy copies of expense receipts in the created folder in SHAREPOINT.
Please suggest.
Thanks,

OAF no api as such for this kind of customization. Rather try developing some web service or something similar which can be invoked from the custom link to do the job.
--Shiv

Folder Actions Dispatcher.app using 80% CPU

I just wonder why this item is using over 80% of my CPU. I have no idea what this application do. I would be grateful if somone could explain for me. I am hesitant to fidle with system items such a remove it. It is in the System Folder under Core Services.
Thank you
Innocents

I'm not sure this will help or not, but one thing I've found is that selecting the menu item Finder > Services > Folder Actions Setup... ONLY works if you have a folder currently selected in the Finder. This might explain why you're not seeing anything.
If you want to "force" the list of Folder Actions to display, right-click on any folder and select Folder Actions Setup. It will display a dialog showing scripts that can be applied. Just hit Cancel. You'll be left with the Folder Actions Setup showing all of your folder actions currently in place.
After letting my machine run over the weekend, I'm seeing that this issue is solved with 10.10.2 (at least for me). What I did was:
Turned on Folder Actions for 3 different LaunchAgents areas and 2 different LaunchDaemons areas (e.g. local, system).
Let the system run over the weekend (over 100 hours all told)
The Folder Actions Dispatcher process is no longer chewing up gobs of memory. It is using some (I'm seeing it go roughly between 40 and 140 MB). That's a little more than I would have thought for such a simple task, but it's by no means stressing the system.
The Folder Actions Dispatcher process is no longer chewing up CPU.
This is far different that what was seen under 10.10.1 with the same test. Under 10.10.1 I would see Folder Actions Dispatcher continue to grab RAM over time into the several GB range, then drop down, then work it's way back up...continually. The CPU usage would also periodically spike up.
So, from my POV, this seems to have been addressed.

Need help creating a folder action for creating folders based on filenames.

I want to create a folder action that will monitor a folder and every time a file is added to the folder it will create a directory using the filename (minus the extension) and move the file the that directory

on run {input, parameters} -- create folders from file names and move
set output to {} -- this will be a list of the moved files
repeat with anItem in the input -- step through each item in the input
    set {theContainer, theName, theExtension} to (getTheNames from anItem)
    try
      set destination to (makeNewFolder for theName at theContainer)
      tell application "Finder"
        move anItem to destination
        set the end of the output to the result as alias -- success
      end tell
    on error errorMessage -- duplicate name, permissions, etc
      log errorMessage
      # handle errors if desired - just skip for now
    end try
end repeat
return the output -- pass on the results to following actions
end run
to getTheNames from someItem -- get a container, name, and extension from a file item
tell application "System Events" to tell disk item (someItem as text)
    set theContainer to the path of the container
    set {theName, theExtension} to {name, name extension}
end tell
if theExtension is not "" then
    set theName to text 1 thru -((count theExtension) + 2) of theName -- just the name part
    set theExtension to "." & theExtension
end if
return {theContainer, theName, theExtension}
end getTheNames
to makeNewFolder for theChild at theParent -- make a new child folder at the parent location if it doesn't already exist
set theParent to theParent as text
if theParent begins with "/" then set theParent to theParent as POSIX file as text
try
    return (theParent & theChild) as alias
on error errorMessage -- no folder
    log errorMessage
    tell application "Finder" to make new folder at theParent with properties {name:theChild}
    return the result as alias
end try
end makeNewFolder
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1.2.3.4.txt
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I take a lot screenshots with Command + Shift + 3/4. They are in PNG and I love them. Yet, I need to send them via email sometimes.
I convert them to JPEG using Preview, but it is time-consuming when especially I have hundreds of them.
I have just learnt that it is possible to do convert in batch using Folder Actions. However, I meet few very serious problems.
1. In Preview, I could choose the quality of JPEG before converting. But, there is no such option in Folder Actions. I even searched online to try to modify the script and it seems that nobody cares about the quality of converted JPEG.
My question: What is the quality of JPEG converted? And, is it possible to modify it?
2. Since I do not know the quality of conversion using Folder Actions, I tried different qualities using Preview and match the outputs with those using Folder Actions. I got no result. As Preview is using Core Image as the processing architecture.
My question: What is the image processing architecture adopted by Image Events?
3. If the quality is unchangeable, can anyone teach me how to write a new script to do the conversion using Preview?
I really hope Mac OS gurus could explain these to me and possibly solve my problems. I am interested to learn the AppleScript part to modify it.
Thank you very much.

It is the original folder action script from Mac OS. Here is the copy.
Could you help me as well where to add the "compression level"? Also, what do "high", "low" and "medium" mean, in % just like Preview, if they use the same image processing architecture?
Again, thank you very much for quick reply.
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Image - Duplicate as JPEG
This Folder Action handler is triggered whenever items are added to the attached folder.
The script creates a JPEG version of the file, but leaves a copy of the file
in its original format. If the original file is already in JPEG format, the script does
not duplicate the file.
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property done_foldername : "JPEG Images"
property originals_foldername : "Original Images"
property newimage_extension : "jpg"
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-- eg: {"PICT", "JPEG", "TIFF", "GIFf"}
property type_list : {"TIFF", "GIFf", "PNGf", "PICT"}
-- since file types are optional in Mac OS X,
-- check the name extension if there is no file type
-- NOTE: do not use periods (.) with the items in the name extensions list
-- eg: {"txt", "text", "jpg", "jpeg"}, NOT: {".txt", ".text", ".jpg", ".jpeg"}
property extension_list : {"tif", "tiff", "gif", "png", "pict", "pct"}
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make new folder at this_folder with properties {name:done_foldername}
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                              set the item_info to the info for this_item
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                                                  my resolve_conflicts(this_item, originals_folder, "")
                                                  set the new_name to my resolve_conflicts(this_item, results_folder, newimage_extension)
                                                  set the source_file to (move this_item to the originals_folder with replacing) as alias
                                        end tell
process_item(source_file, new_name, results_folder)
                              end if
                    end repeat
          on error error_message number error_number
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                              tell application "Finder"
activate
display dialog error_message buttons {"Cancel"} default button 1 giving up after 120
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                    end if
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on resolve_conflicts(this_item, target_folder, new_extension)
          tell application "Finder"
                    set the file_name to the name of this_item
                    set file_extension to the name extension of this_item
                    if the file_extension is "" then
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                    else
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                    end if
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                              set target_extension to file_extension
                    else
                              set target_extension to new_extension
                              set target_name to (the trimmed_name & "." & target_extension) as string
                    end if
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                              repeat
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                                        if not (exists document file new_name of the target_folder) then
-- rename to conflicting file
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                                                  exit repeat
                                        else
                                                  set the name_increment to the name_increment + 1
                                        end if
                              end repeat
                    end if
          end tell
          return the target_name
end resolve_conflicts
-- this sub-routine processes files
on process_item(source_file, new_name, results_folder)
-- NOTE that the variable this_item is a file reference in alias format
-- FILE PROCESSING STATEMENTS GOES HERE
          try
-- the target path is the destination folder and the new file name
                    set the target_path to ((results_folder as string) & new_name) as string
                    with timeout of 900 seconds
                              tell application "Image Events"
launch -- always use with Folder Actions
                                        set this_image to open file (source_file as string)
save this_image as JPEG in file target_path with icon
close this_image
                              end tell
                    end timeout
          on error error_message
                    tell application "Finder"
activate
display dialog error_message buttons {"Cancel"} default button 1 giving up after 120
                    end tell
          end try
end process_item

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