I am trying to figure out how to write an AppleScript that will head to a directory, determine if a file with a certain extension exists, and if it does exist, if the file size is greater than a certain size. And run that check every so often. Hung up on how to look at all files in a certain folder, look for that extension and then see if the file size is past my threshold.
Ideas? Not too good with AppleScript.
red_menace is correct but you can certainly do this with AppleScript.
To list a directory, use the Finder:
tell application "Finder"
set desktopItems to document files of desktop
end tell
To filter based on extension:
tell application "Finder"
set desktopItems to document files of desktop where name ends with ".txt"
end tell
To get a file’s size:
tell application "Finder"
…
set i to item 1 of desktopItems
size of i
end tell
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Add a CommentYou don’t necessarily need to use AppleScript if you are familiar with something else - the Cocoa API and various other scripting languages (Ruby, Python, shell, etc) provide methods that will do all that.