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