Prefix Creation Date to Filename

Summary: Renames the selected records with the creation date at the start of the filename.
Requires: EagleFiler
Install Location: ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/EagleFiler/
Last Modified: 2025-07-31

Description

This adds the creation date (in the format yyyy-MM-dd) to the start of the selected records’ filenames.

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Script

use AppleScript version

 "2.4"

use

framework

 "Foundation"

-- Change to false if you want it to append the date at the end

set

_prefix to true

-- You can customize the date format as described here:

-- https://unicode-org.github.io/icu/userguide/format_parse/datetime/#datetime-format-syntax

set

_dateFormat

 to "yyyy-MM-dd"



tell

application

 "EagleFiler"

    set

_formatter to current application's NSDateFormatter's alloc's init

_formatter's setDateFormat:_dateFormat

set

_records to selected records of browser window

 1

    repeat with

_record in _records

set

_date to _record's creation date

set

_dateString to (_formatter's stringFromDate:_date) as Unicode text

if

_prefix

 then

            set

_record's basename to _dateString & " " & _record's basename



        else

            set

_record's basename to _record's basename & " " & _dateString



        end if

    end repeat

end tell