Filename, wildcards and Get Attribute

[Stephen]

Victor,

I too do a lot of scanning and had a similar need to work with scanned files. You might find that thread interesting to read. Though there were several suggestions which included AppleScript, Peter offered one that worked great without Applescript.

Count file name occurrences in a directory

Thanks Chris for the code and the reference to resources! I will give this a try. . . . Stephen

I also shared a macro I created that deals with file names.

Count file name repetition

If you have the need to count how many files in a folder have something in their name, or like to save files with the same name but append a number after them, this macro will help. As an example, if you have a macro that will save a file called 'Big Store.pdf' to a folder, but if one or more files with that name already exist, this macro can be run first to find out how may files exist with a specified name and then append the returned number after it. Big Store.pdf Big Store 2.pdf Big Stor…

Perhaps this will give you some insight into the kinds of things Keyboard Maestro can do with naming files.

As for moving (and renaming files) someone pointed me to a program call Hazel. Noodlesoft – Noodlesoft – Simply Useful Software
At first glance I thought Hazel was cool but could not see a need for it.... I was wrong! I download about 20 bank statements a month and Hazel watches my download folder, looks for set rules which include scanning the content of the downloaded pdfs, renames the files based on content it finds IN THE DOCUMENTS and moves them to locations based on CONTENT IN THE DOCUMENTS. You could do the same kind of thing by scanning all documents to a given folder and then have Hazel do its magic.

. . . Stephen