I want to sort photos on ATV 2 by alphabetical album name (itunes on win7)

Question

I have 13,000 plus photos stored in folders under a top directory which is shared by iTunes on Win7. For some reason the Apple TV Gen 2 brings up the list of albums (folders) in a random order. How can I change it to be alphabetical?
Thanks

Answer 1

You can call this script from Applescript (just need to do some escaping of quotes):
This can be run in Applescript:
do shell script "
DestinantionFolder=$HOME/Desktop
MONTHS=(January February March April May June July August September October November December)
for f in ~/Desktop/*
do
     if [[ $( echo \"${f##*/}\" | cut -d_ -f1 ) == \"CLIN\" ]] ; then
          ff=$( echo \"${f##*/}\" | cut -d_ -f2 )
          pd=$( echo \"${f##*/}\" | cut -d_ -f3 )
          date=$( echo \"${f##*/}\" | cut -d_ -f5 )
          date=${date%%.*}
          mo=${date:0:2}
          yr=20${date:4:2}
          Dir=$DestinantionFolder/$ff/$pd/${MONTHS[$mo-1]}\\ $yr/
          if [ ! -d \"$Dir\" ]; then
               mkdir -p \"$Dir\"
          fi
          mv \"$f\" \"$Dir\"
     fi
done"
...is there a way to trigger this whenever a new file is created to check and see if it needs to be moved
Yes, with Automator.  When you Open Automator, choose Folder Action
I copied what you did and while the script ran successfully, I don't see any new folders created.  Your shell script makes sense; I am not sure why it doesn't create folders.
The script as written only looks for files in the Desktop Folder
(edit by changing: DestinantionFolder=$HOME/Desktop )
To test I created a file on my Desktop
  touch ~/Desktop/CLIN_JONES123_JAMES228_LAB_022614.PDF
and Folders were created and the file moved.
(Note: I only tested that format.  If the file has any other format, it will fail)