Can I rename items sequentially using applescript?
I have hundrends of photos in a desktop folder that I would like to rename with part of the name being a numerical sequence. Is there a way to automate this, perhaps using applescript? Thanks.
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Yes, but it would be a lot easier to download a freeware utility called Renamer4Mac (www.macupdate.com or www.versiontracker.com.)
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Can I chart in Numbers using AppleScript
I have just started learning AppleScript so that I can automate some business processes and save myself some time. Because of better design and ease of use I use the latest version of iWork and don't even have Office installed on my Mac, nor do I want to install it. However, one area I cannot work out is how to automate the creation of a chart in Numbers using AppleScript.
Is this possible? If so, how, and if not, why not?Answering questions like : how may we do this or that, is what we are supposed to try to achieve in this forum.
Answering questions like yours : why this or that, can't be seriously done here.
Here you ask to end users like you. We don't belong to the teams designing the apps.
We just may try to guess.
To build tables and charts Pages and Numbers share the same pieces of code so there is no technical reasons able to explain the omission.
So I guess that, as Pages is in its 4th version, designers had more time available to embed features in the AppleScript support than those working upon Numbers.
What's funny is that there is a minimal support for charts in Pages (as well as a microscopic support for tables) but there is a correct support for tables (which may be enhanced) in Numbers but nothing for charts.
Honestly, I really don't think that the difference is huge.
I posted my script too fast.
I forgot to insert the handler allowing us to bring a sheet at front which is required to apply GUIScripting.
It's probably the main drawback of the need to use GUIScripting here.
I don't waste time trying to apply some edit tasks to the charts.
I just wanted to fill the gap between Pages and Numbers about scripting charts.
Here is an enhanced version.
--{code}
--[SCRIPT add_charts]
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France)
2011/08/27
on run
my activateGUIscripting()
tell application "Numbers" to tell document 1
set dName to its name
set sName1 to name of sheet 1
set sName2 to name of sheet 2
Select sheet 1 of document 1
The doc name may be passed by a number but the sheet must be identified by its name .
As it's just a sample, in the first call I reference the doc by its index *)
my selectSheet(1, sName1)
tell sheet sName1 to tell table 1
Always define the selection before creating a chart *)
set selection range to range (name of cell 4 of column 2 & " : " & name of cell 8 of column 3)
my selectSubMenu("Numbers", 5, 4, 9) -- Scatter chart
Always define the selection before creating a chart *)
set selection range to range (name of cell 4 of column 2 & " : " & name of cell 8 of column 3)
my selectSubMenu("Numbers", 5, 4, 3) -- Bars
Always define the selection before creating a chart *)
set selection range to range (name of cell 4 of column 2 & " : " & name of cell 8 of column 3)
my selectSubMenu("Numbers", 5, 4, 4) -- Stacked Bars
Always define the selection before creating a chart *)
set selection range to range (name of cell 4 of column 3 & " : " & name of cell 8 of column 3)
my selectSubMenu("Numbers", 5, 4, 20) -- 3D Pie
end tell
Select sheet 2 of document 1
This time, I reference the document by its name *)
my selectSheet(dName, sName2)
tell sheet sName2 to tell table 1
Always define the selection before creating a chart *)
set selection range to range (name of cell 4 of column 2 & " : " & name of cell 8 of column 3)
my selectSubMenu("Numbers", 5, 4, 9) -- Scatter chart
Always define the selection before creating a chart *)
set selection range to range (name of cell 4 of column 2 & " : " & name of cell 8 of column 3)
my selectSubMenu("Numbers", 5, 4, 3) -- Bars
Always define the selection before creating a chart *)
set selection range to range (name of cell 4 of column 2 & " : " & name of cell 8 of column 3)
my selectSubMenu("Numbers", 5, 4, 4) -- Stacked Bars
Always define the selection before creating a chart *)
set selection range to range (name of cell 4 of column 3 & " : " & name of cell 8 of column 3)
my selectSubMenu("Numbers", 5, 4, 20) -- 3D Pie
end tell --sheet 2…
end tell -- Numbers…
end run
--=====
on parleAnglais()
local z
try
tell application "Numbers" to set z to localized string "Cancel"
on error
set z to "Cancel"
end try
return (z is not "Annuler")
end parleAnglais
--=====
on activateGUIscripting()
(* to be sure than GUI scripting will be active *)
tell application "System Events"
if not (UI elements enabled) then set (UI elements enabled) to true
end tell
end activateGUIscripting
--=====
==== Uses GUIscripting ====
on selectSheet(theDoc, theSheet)
script myScript
property listeObjets : {}
local maybe, targetSheetRow
tell application "Numbers"
activate
set theDoc to name of document theDoc (* useful if the passed value is a number *)
tell document theDoc to set my listeObjets to name of sheets
end tell -- "Numbers"…
set maybe to theSheet is in my listeObjets
set my listeObjets to {} -- So it will not be saved in the script *)
if not maybe then
if my parleAnglais() then
error "The sheet “" & theSheet & "” is unavailable in the spreadsheet “" & theDoc & "” !"
else
error "La feuille « " & theSheet & " » n’existe pas dans le tableur « " & theDoc & " » ! "
end if -- my parleAnglais
end if -- not maybe
set maybe to 5 > (system attribute "sys2")
tell application "System Events" to tell application process "Numbers"
tell outline 1 of scroll area 1 of splitter group 1 of splitter group 1 of window theDoc
if maybe then (* macOS X 10.4.x
'(value of attributes contains 0)': '(value of attribute "AXDisclosureLevel" is 0)' sometimes works in Tiger, sometimes not.
The only possible instances of 0 amongst the attributes are the disclosure level of a sheet row and the index of the first row, which represents a sheet anyway.
Another possibility is '(value of attribute -1 is 0)', which makes me uneasy. *)
set targetSheetRow to first row where ((value of attributes contains 0) and (value of first static text is theSheet))
else (* macOS X 10.5.x or higher *)
set targetSheetRow to first row where ((value of attribute "AXDisclosureLevel" is 0) and ((groups is {}) and (value of first static text is theSheet)) or (value of first group's first static text is theSheet))
end if -- maybe…
Handler modified to accomodate sheets requiring a lot of time to get the focus
tell targetSheetRow to set value of attribute "AXSelected" to true
set cnt to 0
repeat (*
Must way that Numbers becomes ready to receive the value *)
try
tell targetSheetRow to set value of attribute "AXDisclosing" to true
exit repeat
on error
set cnt to cnt + 1
delay 0.5 -- half a second
end try
end repeat
end tell -- outline…
end tell -- "System Events"…
tell application "Numbers" to tell document theDoc to tell sheet theSheet to tell table 1
with timeout of 20 * 60 seconds (*
WITH this setting, the script will be able to wait 20 minutes for the asked value.
I hope that the document will not be so huge that this delay prove to be too short. *)
value of cell "A1"
end timeout
end tell -- "Numbers"…
tell application "System Events" to tell application process "Numbers" (*
Do the trick one more time to be sure that the sheet is open *)
tell targetSheetRow to set value of attribute "AXDisclosing" to true
end tell -- "System Events"…
End of the modified piece of code
end script
run myScript
end selectSheet
--=====
my selectSubMenu("Pages",6, 4, 26)
==== Uses GUIscripting ====
on selectSubMenu(theApp, mt, mi, ms)
tell application theApp
activate
tell application "System Events" to tell process theApp to tell menu bar 1 to ¬
tell menu bar item mt to tell menu 1 to tell menu item mi to tell menu 1 to click menu item ms
end tell -- application theApp
end selectSubMenu
--=====
useful to get the indexs of the triggered item
my select_SubMenu("Numbers", 6, 4, 3) (* Table > Chart> Bars *)
on select_SubMenu(theApp, mt, mi, ms)
tell application theApp
activate
tell application "System Events" to tell process theApp to tell menu bar 1
get name of menu bar items
01 - "Apple",
02 - "Numbers",
03 - "Fichier",
04 - "Édition",
05 - "Insertion",
06 - "Tableau",
07 - "Format",
08 - "Disposition",
09 - "Présentation",
10 - "Fenêtre",
11 - "Partage",
12 - "Aide"}
get name of menu bar item mt
-- {"Tableau"}
tell menu bar item mt to tell menu 1
get name of menu items
01 - "Feuille",
02 - missing value,
03 - "Tableau",
04 - "Graphique",
05 - "Figure",
06 - "Zone de texte",
07 - "Fonction",
08 - "Ligne de connexion",
09 - missing value,
10 - "Remplissage",
11 - missing value,
12 - "Rangs copiés",
13 - "Colonnes copiées",
14 - missing value,
15 - "Date et heure",
16 - "Nom du fichier",
17 - "Numéro de page",
18 - "Nombre de pages",
19 - missing value,
20 - "Commentaire",
21 - "Lien",
22 - "Saut de colonne",
23 - "Équation MathType",
24 - missing value,
25 - "Choisir…"}
get name of menu item mi
--> "Graphique"
tell menu item mi to tell menu 1
get name of menu items
01 - "Colonnes",
02 - "Colonnes empilées",
03 - "Barres",
04 - "Barres empilées",
05 - "Ligne",
06 - "Couches",
07 - "Couches empilées",
08 - "Diagramme circulaire",
09 - "Nuage de points",
10 - "Mixte",
11 - "2 axes",
12 - missing value,
13 - "Colonnes 3D",
14 - "Colonnes 3D empilées",
15 - "Barres 3D",
16 - "Barres 3D empilées",
17 - "Linéaire 3D",
18 - "Couches 3D",
19 - "Couches 3D empilées",
20 - "Circulaire 3D"}
get name of menu item ms
--> "Barres"
click menu item ms
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell -- application theApp
end select_SubMenu
--=====
--[/SCRIPT]
--{code}
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 27 août 2011 15:19:15
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Can't rename a file using File.renameTo(...)
Hi,
I have a servlet, RenameFile, that receives audio file via HTTP Post and writes it to /tmp/recording.0002002B-0C0022BB-0001.1.20050622.073208.wav. Then it creates directories under /alert_messages directory based on the timing parameters that it get. Finally, it renames /tmp/recording.0002002B-0C0022BB-0001.1.20050622.073208.wav to /alert_messages/2005/06/22/22/00/79_0_200506222200_001.WAV. RenameFile runs fine when it runs by itself (ONLY one Tomcat, jakarta-tomcat-4.1.30, is running). However, RenameFile fails to rename the /tmp/recording.0002002B-0C0022BB-0001.1.20050622.073208.wav to /alert_messages/2005/06/22/22/00/79_0_200506222200_001.WAV when it runs in a Linux box that jboss-3.2.1_tomcat-4.1.24 is also running. In this box, TWO versions of Tomcat are running at the same time. I set the /alert_messages directory with �chmod �R 777� and run jakarta-tomcat-4.1.30 as tomcat user. RenameFile fails the rename operation. But, it creates the /alert_messages/2005/06/22/22/00/ directories.
It seem like RenameFile can create directory but can�t create file in the /alert_messages directory when both version of tomcats are running at the same time.
Can it be due to both the jakarta-tomcat-4.1.30 and the jboss-3.2.1_tomcat-4.1.24 versions are running at the same time in one Linux box?
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- originalFilename: recording.0002002B-0C0022BB-0001.1.20050622.073208.wav
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- file.getName(): recording.0002002B-0C0022BB-0001.1.20050622.073208.wav
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File Listing in the /tmp directory create by RenameFile;
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drwxrwxrwx 3 tomcat tomcat 4096 Jun 22 07:28 alert_messages
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drwxr-xr-x 2 tomcat tomcat 4096 Jun 22 07:33 .
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!!!!! Can Read the old File !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!! Can Write the old File !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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!!!!! Can Not Write the new File !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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int indexOfLastUnderScore;
int lengthOfExtension;
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System.out.println(" !!!!! Can Not Read the old File !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!");
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System.out.println(" !!!!! Can Read the old File !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!");
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System.out.println(" !!!!! Can Not Write the old File !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!");
} else {
System.out.println(" !!!!! Can Write the old File !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!");
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System.out.println(" !!!!! Can Not Read the new File !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!");
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System.out.println(" !!!!! Can Read the new File !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!");
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System.out.println(" !!!!! Can Not Write the new File !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!");
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System.out.println(" !!!!! renameTo return false !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!");
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ex.printStackTrace();
throw ex;
} catch (SecurityException seEx) {
System.out.println("SecurityException For The New Dest File Name");
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throw seEx;
} finally {
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return myNewFileName.toString();
else
return null;
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Picture
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Can you RENAME footage to be imported (using metadata)...without transcoding?
Is there a way, or a program in the suite that can rename all the files using the file's metadata (namely the date and time it was shot) that we plan to import without transcoding them? They are AVCHD files (.MTS files)... For years we've transcoded to prores proxy and then eventually to ProRes422 when final edit is locked for export, but since Premiere handles native avchd files (.mts) pretty well now, I'd rather not have to transcode and save some hard drive space. Transcoding doesn't appear to offer any benefits over editing natively anymore, right (for basic editing with basic color correction)?
So is there a program (prelude? bridge?) that I can use to access all the mts files and rename them by the date and time it was shot so that I can take all 5 or 6 SDHC cards and combine them and have them all listed in chronological order? Right now I end up with either a folder for each card, or if I try to combine all the clips, I end up with a bunch of files with the same name (eg. 00000.MTS, 00001.MTS, etc...) since that's how they were named coming out of the camera on their respective card.
Please advise. Thanks!jamesp2 wrote:
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Now, using the Media Browser, import those clips. Then go back to the stream folder and see if PPro created .xmp files for each imported clip. If so, it would appear you have metadata. If not, no metadata, because PPro couldn't find any after renaming.
I'm on a mac. But I still tried a few things after reading your post...
First, I copied two existing SDHC card's folders to a new location so I could mess with them. I went in and renamed all the clips 2 different ways:
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2) Using Finder, I navigated to the stream folder on my 2nd copy of the original SDHC card and then I right-clicked and selected "open with" and selected Adobe Bridge. Bridge opened up that whole folder with all the clips (including the duplicate spanned clips). I renamed them there using date/time, etc. I went back to Media Browser and they also did not show up now. So...instead of using Media Browser, I just imported the whole folder into the project panel. The clips now did populate into the project panel with the new names.
The new clips generated .cfa and .pek files but did NOT generate .xmp files. Only if I did NOT rename the files did it generate .xmp files.
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How can I create an infinitely refilling draggable item in Cocoa-Applescript, Xcode?
It's hard to explain. The only example I can give it how you can infinately drag buttons from Xcode Editor into a window, except instead of a button, I need a custom view, and instead of a window, I need a verticle list. How can I do this using AppleScript-ObjC, in Xcode?
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