19th
AppleScript hack: move screenshots from Desktop to iPhoto
on text_to_list(txt, delim)
set saveD to AppleScript’s text item delimiters
try
set AppleScript’s text item delimiters to {delim}
set theList to every text item of txt
on error errStr number errNum
set AppleScript’s text item delimiters to saveD
error errStr number errNum
end try
set AppleScript’s text item delimiters to saveD
return (theList)
end text_to_list
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on change_case(this_text, this_case)
if this_case is 0 then
set the comparison_string to “ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ”
set the source_string to “abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz”
else
set the comparison_string to “abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz”
set the source_string to “ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ”
end if
set the new_text to “”
repeat with this_char in this_text
set x to the offset of this_char in the comparison_string
if x is not 0 then
set the new_text to ¬
(the new_text & character x of the source_string) as string
else
set the new_text to (the new_text & this_char) as string
end if
end repeat
return the new_text
end change_case
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set the_command to “mdfind -onlyin ~/Desktop/ "kMDItemContentTypeTree = ‘*public.image*’wc"”
set text_return to (do shell script the_command)
set returned_list to text_to_list(text_return, return)
set totaltext to {}
repeat with an_image in returned_list
try
set this_file to (an_image as string)
set small_file to change_case(this_file, 0)
if (small_file ends with “png”) or (small_file ends with “gif”) or (small_file ends with “jpg”) or (small_file ends with “tiff”) then
set totaltext to totaltext & this_file
end if
—display dialog this_file
on error errorstr
display dialog errorstr
end try
end repeat
if (totaltext is not equal to “”) then
tell application “iPhoto”
import from totaltext
end tell
end if
