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Hopefully this is an easy question, one that I can't seem to figure out. I have a folder of photos and I would like to select all their file names and create a text list of just the file names. Every time I try I select the photos themselves and when pasted into my text document all of a sudden I have a lot of images. Any advice on how to do this? Thanks Jeff

You're part way there. Do this in TextEdit. Open a new document, CMDSHIFTT to put it into plain text format, paste in the contents of your photo folder, and be surprised when only the names get pasted and not the images. If you want them in alphabetical order, change the photo folders view to list and click on the name column before copying.

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Hi guys,
first time using this forum...
and first time trying to do a script for apple...
I figured out how to do simple things... like open files and stuff to text files... but don't know where to begin:
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dataXXYYY_Waf25_7_19_16.csv
before append the file contains random data ... i.e.
dummyline1
dummyline2
dummyline3
dummyline4
dummyline5
dummyline6
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the file will be saved with same name:
dataXXYYY_Waf25_7_19_16.csv
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dummyline1
dummyline2
dummyline3
dummyline4
wafer,25
dummyline5
dummyline6
any help will be appreciated
-thanks

Copy your source folder - named 'datalogs' to your home directory and run this script by copying into a new AppleScript Editor document and pressing Run.
I think I've followed your specification, and there will be other ways to do this, but ask if you have questions. (I have put comments in the code which should explain some of it!)
There is no error checking, but I have made copies of the original files in the source directory. (You can comment out the line "duplicate theFile" by prefixing with "--" when you are sure it's working.
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