Comments on: Applescript Date/Time File Renamer Folder Action

By: Perroboy

Perroboy — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 12:03:05 +0000

Sorry, but there’s one thing I don’t understand, and that’s the odd padding at the end of the filenames.

For instance, an mpg created on 2003-12-02 is renamed: 20031202191812.mpg.

What’s 191812? The precise timestamp? Can I truncate this somehow?

Sadly, still doesn’t give me a workaround for files created on my videocam, which frequently dies and experiences date reset, producing files taken 1904-01-01

By: Perroboy

Perroboy — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:47:17 +0000

Hi,
Been searching for something like this for quite some time and was very excited to find yours.

Thanks a mil!

By: ryan

ryan — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:21:50 +0000

Cool. Good to know it helped. I’ll have to check and see what I’ve updated since then. And, yes, applescript is very verbose in some ways and somewhat counterintuitive at times. The best way to find out what syntax to use sometimes is just to find something similar that someone has done — it’s really hard to just find a reference guide online…

By: ruby tuesday

ruby tuesday — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:45:50 +0000

thank you so much! i’ve been losing sleep over how to get exactly this done .. seems simple enough until i try to pull it off in applescript. i’m more of a C++ / Java person i guess. kudos to you