Can i run a script on multiple files in a folder

i have a folder where i have 60 files. Each file takes about 45 to 1 hr to go through the script and the script is same for all files. So I was thinking to create a script that can run over night and next morning i can come and distribute all my files. It’s a simple script that looks for some specific words and highlights them.

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http://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2008/06/a9video_using_batch_processing_for_tasks/
http://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2006/batch_process

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Using script on multiple files in a folder.

THis has GOT to be easy, but I can't figure it out.
Walgreens wants you to email photos to them, but I usually do like 50 photos at a time. So, I created a script that takes an object and emails it. The problem is, I don't know how to do it to one photo, then the next, etc. It will do all the photos, but that is one HUGE email!
So that's my question. How do I get the script to run individually on multiple files?
Thanks in advance.
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Copy, paste, edit (where appropriate), and save - the code below as an application (AppleScript applet):
-- Code starts here --
property toAddress : "[email protected]"
property tSubject : "Please process my photo(s)."
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my send_Photos(dItems)
end open
on send_Photos(tItems)
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tell application "Finder" to set fname to displayed name of i
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I now have a need to do this on multiple files at the same time. Using the Illustrator Help menu, I found out about Batch processing. The tutorial says that a batch can be run on a single file or on a folder of files. Bingo! That's what I want. Problem is, I can't get it to work.
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1. I followed the steps in Tim Archer's excellent article "Oracle External Procedure to Run Host Commands" (http://www.timarcher.com/?q=node/9). If the link does nto work, google the article's title.
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How can I run a script last?

Hiya,
I have a single backup job running a single dataset. That single dataset has an include statement to include a dataset directory, which holds individual datasets for the several hosts I want to back up, each with potentially different parameters. This works well, the hosts back up in some order (I don't care), everything's happy.
However, what I want to do is add a step on the end of this process to run a report on the admin server after all the backups are complete. That is, to run a script once, last.
If I add an "after backup" command in the dataset, it runs it (as stated in the manual) on the client servers, after every backup, which is no good to me. I've tried creating a separate job and scheduling it at a lower priority a few minutes later than the backup job, but that seems to just run when it feels like it, I presume because there aren't any conflicts so why shouldn't it?
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Thanks Donna, but... no. It didn't work.
We've actually purchased a license for OSB, so I've fired this question at our official support channel now, and they came back with the same answer at the same time (are you the Oracle techie looking at my problem, by any chance?). For the record here's (with some tweaks for readability in this context) what I've sent back in response to that article.
From the article, I thought perhaps the following might do the trick:
include dataset /Hosts {
after backup optional "/usr/local/osb/pre-n-post after-fsd-hosts mail"
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2010/11/05.07:26:58 trouble parsing dataset in FSdaily line 1 - open brace appears where not allowed (OB dataset mgr)
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2010/11/05.07:26:58 trouble parsing dataset in FSdaily line 3 - bad nesting (OB dataset mgr)
"010/11/05.07:26:58 offending line is "}
So it appears I’m not actually allowed to do that. I don’t understand why that would be.
The only other idea I have is to include a dummy backup step, backing up something really small (because OSB won’t let you run a backup without backing anything up - sigh!), tack a script onto that, and hope like heck OSB decides that it should run that last. All the documentation I’ve read gives the impression that datasets are all about scope, not order, so I’m not altogether confident that this will work. In any case, it seems a pretty kludgy way of doing it! And, given the next paragraph below, I’m not all that sure it’ll work in any case.
My idea of scheduling a catalog backup for five minutes later than the client backups, with a lower priority, so that it runs when the client backups finish, also has a flaw - if I use two tape drives in parallel, it runs the catalog job in parallel with the last client job, which is completely useless. I want to put on the end of the tape a backup of the catalog as at just after the client backups, so that in the case of a disaster I can restore that and I’ll be good to restore everything else.
In addition to being completely useless for the purposes of putting an “after” catalog backup on the end of the tape, it’s also completely useless for the purposes of running a script last - I tried the following:
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I'm hoping to find someone who knows all the gory details of launchd. Here's the why and what: I'm trying to coerce Aperture into letting two users on the same computer share the same Aperture Library, both able to import photos and see and use what the other has done. Initially it is no problem, change the permissions so everyone has read/write/execute, put the Library in a common area, and point both person's Aperture at it. The problem is that Aperture changes permissions of things inside the Library as you use it, and especially when one person imports, the other person can't see that stuff.
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