I have some text files (actually in TMX format, but I'm not sure if that's really relevant here) in this folder: /Users/Hans/Dropbox/CT/TM/ File names like: mueller.tmx meyer.tmx maier.tmx How can I detect which file in the subfolder "TM" has the most recent change?

I have this AppleScript code, which gets the latest file from my downloads folder. It needs to be adjusted to your path. tell application "Finder" set latestFile to the last item of (sort (get files of (path to downloads folder)) by creation date) as alias set p to POSIX path of latestFile end t…

I see that my original question wasn’t clear at all. Sorry for that. I should have written: From the subfolders: /Users/Hans/Dropbox/CT/TM/Meyer /Users/Hans/Dropbox/CT/TM/Mueller /Users/Hans/Dropbox/CT/TM/Maier The folder /Users/Hans/Dropbox/CT/TM/Mueller contains the most recently modified .t…

Why doesn’t this work? set dbPath to (path to home folder as text) & "Dropbox:" set tmFldr to dbPath & "CT:TM:" tell application "Finder" set latestFolder to the last item of (sort (get folders of (path to tmFldr)) by modification date) as alias set folderName to latestFolder's name display dia…

[image] HansL: Why doesn't this work? Two things: With your (path to tmFldr) I get an error. However, it works with get folders of folder tmFldr AFAIK a folder’s modification date does not change when the modification date of a file in that folder changes. (It changes only when you add or r…

Hi Hans Oh, so it is modified files in subfolders. So will my script not help.

You can use Keyboard Maestro to scan a folder (or folders) using the For Each action and the Folder Contents collection. Add a collection for each folder if appropriate, or scan the parent folder. You can use the Get File Attribute action to get the type of the file (to restrict it to File types),…

Thank you all! I found this, to work with: [image] Getting the URL of the File Most Recently Added to a Folder Questions & Suggestions You can iterate through a folder and find the most recently added file like this: Keyboard Maestro Actions.kmactions (3.7 KB) [image] …

I do have these macros in my examples, but I haven't looked closely at them, but I guess they would be a good start. Examples Macros.kmmacros (9.7 KB)

[image] CafeTran_Training: How can I detect which file in the subfolder "TM" has the most recent change? Hey Hans, Probably the simplest way is with a shell script. Find Last Modified File in a Directory (recursive).kmmacros (3.4 KB) [image] This has one major pitfall. If you have .app …

[image] JimmyHartington: I have this AppleScript code, which gets the latest file from my downloads folder. Hey Jimmy, As has been noted your code is not recursive. It works fine for a relatively small directory, but it gets progressively slower as the number of files in the directory grows…

How to Identify the Subfolder With the Most Recently Written File?

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