Applescript that searches for folders by name

Question

I've set up a bunch of folder action scripts on our Xserve that changes the colour label of folders when they are dropped into specific folder, I use this to help organise which jobs are live and which are finished and ready for backup.
The system works well, but because there is a live work folder and finished work folder for each of our clients and each of these has a folder action attached, our server is taking quite a hammering with System events using huge processor cycles.
Someone kindly came up with the script below for a stay open script that would check the folders every 30 seconds and change the folder labels, which would be perfect, but it only finds "Live Work" and "Finished Work" folders on the desktop, All our Client folders are actually on a xserve RAID, so I need to modify the script so it seaches all of the RAID for folders called "live work" or "finished work" and batch changes the colour label.. any ideas?
property LiveWorkFolder : "Live Work"
property FinishedWorkFolder : "Finished Work"
property NoColor : 0
property Orange : 1
property Red : 2
property Yellow : 3
property Cyan : 4
property Magenta : 5
property Green : 6
property Gray : 7
on idle
tell application "Finder"
repeat with d in folder LiveWorkFolder
set label index of d to Green
end repeat
end tell
tell application "Finder"
repeat with d in folder FinishedWorkFolder
set label index of d to Red
end repeat
end tell
-- rerun this routine for constant surveillance
return -- rerun by default every 30 seconds
-- return 10 -- rerun every 10 seconds
end idle

Answer 1

01. In your original post, you stated:
property LiveWorkFolder : "Live Work"
property FinishedWorkFolder : "Finished Work"
...; however, in your pictorial reply post - you show 'Finished Jobs' and 'Live Jobs'.
Also, as such - i do not know how your code works; since the 'LiveWorkfolder' and 'FinishedWorkFolder' properties, or - else where in your code you, do not supply a complete file path.
02. Via 'Disk Utility' I created a disk image - titled 'RAID'. In 'RAID' I created three (3) folders {All-Clad, ASDA, and Bentley}, which each containing a 'Projects' folder; and each 'Projects' folder containing folders 'Finished Jobs' and 'Live Jobs'. In these last two (2) folders I place some randomly selected files.
The code below (based on my above posted code - which had 'on idle', 'return', and 'end idle' commented out) worked, as expected.
property LiveWorkFolder : "Live Jobs"
property FinishedWorkFolder : "Finished Jobs"
property MasterPath : "RAID" -- The name of the folder, or volume, which contains the folders of the users, whose related folders contain the 'Live Work' and 'Finished Work' folders.
property NoColor : 0
property Orange : 1
property Red : 2
property Yellow : 3
property Cyan : 4
property Magenta : 5
property Green : 6
property Gray : 7
on idle
tell application "Finder"
set liveWorkFolder_List to every folder of entire contents of folder MasterPath whose name contains LiveWorkFolder
set FinishedWorkFolder_List to every folder of entire contents of folder MasterPath whose name contains FinishedWorkFolder
repeat with i in liveWorkFolder_List
set label index of every item in i to Green
end repeat
repeat with i in FinishedWorkFolder_List
set label index of every item in i to Red
end repeat
end tell
-- rerun this routine for constant surveillance
return 30 -- rerun by default every 30 seconds
-- return 10 -- rerun every 10 seconds
end idle
03. At least here (in 'on idle' ... 'end idle' ) ...
return
... by itself, does not imply 'return 30'. Thus, the reason for ...
return 30
... above.
  Mac OS X (10.4.8)