ddas
June 18, 2015, 11:20pm
1
I have a folder of files in the Finder, which all follow this naming pattern:
apple01
What I need to do is create a macro that grabs the first set (apple01-apple04) and zips them, to a file called “apple.zip”.
Then on the next repeat, the macro would grab the next set (orange01-04) and zip it and call it “orange.zip”
Then on and on – literally thousands of times.
I can’t wrap my brain around how this might be accomplished in KM. Any ideas?
Hey David,
For my own use I would probably do this with AppleScript or as one Shell Script.
But I'll mix it up a bit in Keyboard Maestro.
Make sure you test this on a COPY .
Basically what I'm doing is getting a list of file names and stripping numbers and suffixes off the end.
Then I get the unique names.
Then I use that list of unique names to create the archives.
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NOTE: YOU have to change the dirPath variable to your target folder. The tilde (~) is an abbreviation for your home folder.
Zip Named Files.kmmacros (4.0 KB)
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ddas
June 19, 2015, 5:49pm
3
Wow.
That is pretty intense. I don’t have enough of a scripting background to fully understand what you did. Thanks so much for figuring it out. I’ll give it a whirl!
