Rename for Dropbox/Windows
Summary: Changes filenames for better interoperability with Dropbox and Windows.
Requires: EagleFiler
Install Location: ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/EagleFiler/
Last Modified: 2019-12-10
Description
This script changes the filenames of the selected records to replace characters that are invalid on Windows with spaces and hyphens. See also the user-contributed script and smart folder in the forum.
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Script
tell application "EagleFiler"
set _records to selected records of browser window 1
repeat with _record in _records
set _record's filename to my processName(_record's filename)
end repeat
end tell
on processName(_name)
set _invalidChars to "<>/\\|"
repeat with _c in _invalidChars
set _name to my replace(_name, _c, "-")
end repeat
set _cr to ASCII character 13
set _lf to ASCII character 10
set _invalidChars to "\"?*" & _cr & _lf
repeat with _c in _invalidChars
set _name to my replace(_name, _c, " ")
end repeat
set _invalidChars to ":"
repeat with _c in _invalidChars
set _name to my replace(_name, _c, " -")
end repeat
set _name to my removeTrailingSpaces(_name)
return _name
end processName
on replace(_string, _source, _replacement)
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to _source
set _items to every text item of _string
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to _replacement
return _items as Unicode text
end replace
on removeTrailingSpaces(_string)
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
repeat until _string does not end with " "
set _string to (characters 1 thru -2 of _string) as Unicode text
end repeat
return _string
end removeTrailingSpaces