Applescript for replacing Original Files with aliases from an Organized Library.

Question

Hi, all I am new to Applescript and the support community. I am working on developing a script that takes a folder and replaces its original music content with aliases from an organized Library. Let me explain a little better.. I have a list of project folders that all contain folders and original music. My company uses iTunes to store and organize their music. Once iTunes has imported the music and has made a copy of the original file and organizes it accordingly we create an alias within the iTunes Library and manually drag and drop the aliases into our Project folders. I have a Script that reverts the aliases with the orginal file and the coding is
Code starts here---
set f to choose folder
ProcessAlias(f as string)
-- replacess all alias files in the passed folder path (string)
on ProcessAlias(this_folder)
-- get list of folders in this_folder
set utid to AppleScript's text item delimiters -- store old delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {return}
tell application "Finder"
set folder_listing to every folder of folder this_folder as string
end tell
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to utid -- restore old delimiters
if folder_listing is "" then
set folder_list to {}
else
set folder_list to paragraphs of folder_listing
end if
-- process folder_list
repeat with sub_folder in folder_list
ProcessAlias(sub_folder) -- send each folder back to this subroutine
end repeat
-- get list of alias files and process them
tell application "Finder"
set alias_files to every file of folder this_folder whose kind is "Alias"
repeat with this_alias in alias_files
try -- error if broken alias
set orig_item to original item of this_alias
set item_dest to container of this_alias
move orig_item to item_dest with replacing
end try
end repeat
end tell
return -- you can return a listing of moved originals if you want
end ProcessAlias
Basically I need the revers of this process. The objective is to save space and continue to let iTunes organize and copy files for us. I already have made a script that generates aliases into the subfolders of iTunes organized Library withour replacing the file that iTunes created. I also made a script that takes the itunes library and dumps all the aliases into a designated folder. I thought this may be helpful for drawing aliases to files that are in our project folder but seem to be stuck.
I was thinking maybe if I took my iTunes and made all the aliases all into one folder to draw aliases from would make it easier. I'm not sure but it seems like there should be some easy way of doing this. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Also Script above is for reverting aliases into original files as posted by Eatalay of this forum.