Fetch Softworks

File Selection based on modification date (3 posts)

• Started 20 years ago by freyj
• Latest reply 20 years ago from freyj

• freyj Member

  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 #

• 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 repeat

  Thanks,

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 20 years ago #

• freyj Member

  That's just what I needed!

  Thanks Jim.

  Jim

  Posted 20 years ago #