Automator or Apple Script To Move Multiple Files to Multiple Folders
I was just wondering, is there any sort of automator workflow or maybe apple script that will allow me to automate the following:
I have a folder named SCANS containing multiple different files that need to go to multiple different folders.
So Say I have:
SCANS
and in this folder I have ten files named A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J and I want each of these files to be moved to different folders eg.
A I want to go to folder 1
B I want to go to folder 2
C I want to go to folder 3 etc etc.
Anyone know if there is a way of doing this please?
I have tried a workflow where I find finder items in the Scans folder and move to another but that only seems to work for one file. When I add more it does not seem to work.
Any help/guidance would be appreciated.
Thank you!
Hi Niel,
Not quite what I wanted because I missed some information from my question....
What I actually want is to search for files containing certain text in the name and if positive to then move that file to the specified folders.
Cheers.
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