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File Selection based on modification date (3 posts)
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- Started 20 years ago by freyj
- Latest reply 20 years ago from freyj
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freyj Member
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Jim Matthews Administrator
Unfortunately Fetch does not support AppleScript "whose" clauses. So you would have to do check the dates of the files one by one, using code like this:
set fnames to name of every remote item
set newfnames to {}
repeat with aname in fnames
set aname to aname as string
if (modification date of remote item aname > date "Saturday, June 1, 2002 12:00:00 AM") and ¬
(item type of remote item aname is isFile) then
set newfnames to newfnames & aname
end if
end repeatThanks,
Jim Matthews
Fetch Softworks -
freyj Member
That's just what I needed!
Thanks Jim.
Jim
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Hi Jim,
I'm trying to use AppleScript to delete files older than a week old. So far I can grab a list of the filenames or a list of the modification dates. I just can't get a list of the names of the items I want to delete.
How do I get "set file_list to get name of every remote file whose whose modification date is less than (the current date) - (7 * days)" to work? What am I missing?
Thanks,
Jim
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Jim Frey
IT Integration Engineer
RR Donnelley & Sons
Lancaster Financial
Posted 20 years ago #