I run this script from Quicksilver when I feel my Desktop is getting out of control, but there's no reason you couldn't run it automatically as a folder action instead.
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I often let a lot of junk accumulate on my desktop, making it hard to find things. In order to keep the clutter under control, I made folders for each of the kinds of things that end up on the Desktop (music, video, documents, etc.), and then wrote a simple AppleScript to sort files on the Desktop into the correct folders. The script recognizes file types by their extension. Though the file types and destination folders are hard coded, they are set at the top of the script and should be trivial to change.
I run this script from Quicksilver when I feel my Desktop is getting out of control, but there's no reason you couldn't run it automatically as a folder action instead.
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An AppleScript to tidy up the Desktop
This is fantastic! Here is a slightly modified folder action version which works 'on open' for the folder 'Desktop'.
A tighter script
This is a folder action script, watching my download folder; does the same thing, but more elegantly!
An AppleScript to tidy up the Desktop
Alright, I'm not getting this to work. I assume I need to replace the ((path to Desktop as text)) with something, but I'm not sure exactly what.
An AppleScript to tidy up the Desktop
No, it should just work, assuming you made those folders on your desktop. What error message are you getting?
An AppleScript to tidy up the Desktop
What missing is the folder creation in all these scripts.
If some one New to AS uses them they may not realise they have to Manually make the folders first. I supsect that that is the issue that 'michaelnp' or its a filevault issue.
This is a script that I put together a couple of years ago, will create the folder needed if it does not exist
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An AppleScript to tidy up the Desktop
I was looking for functionality like this a month or two ago and came across this awesome software utility that was just released to the public in Sep '06.
http://www.noodlesoft.com/ Highly configurable. Totally sweet!!
An AppleScript to tidy up the Desktop
If you've got FileVault turned on for your account, it won't work. AppleScript can't deal with FileVault-mounted volumes, and the script will just fail.
An AppleScript to tidy up the Desktop
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An AppleScript to tidy up the Desktop
Thanks for all the great inspiration.
I've made a few changes to make it easier to update the filters.
Sorry, but the names are in Swedish. Hope you can decipher anyways.
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