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Rename inbound faxes using a folder action script
Authored by: JimAkin on Oct 23, '06 11:09:14AM

Without discounting the usefulness of this hint, which definitely improves on OS X's default behavior, there's little danger of faxes from the same sender overwriting each other.

It so happens that most of my faxes come from people who never bothered to set up their Sender IDs (or who perhaps lost them in power failures). My Mac consequently labels them "FAX from Unknown" -- and numbers each file (FAX from Unknown 1.pdf, FAX from Unknown 2.pdf, etc.) to prevent overwriting.

Adding a timestamp to each filename is great, especially for Spotlight searches, but as someone who gets relatively few faxes, sorting contents of /Users/Shared/Faxes by modification date suffices to provide the same info.

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Jim



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Rename inbound faxes using a folder action script
Authored by: JHromadka on Oct 24, '06 09:11:44AM

I was the one that the poster helped on MacNN (thanks again!), and the problem we ran into with the default Mac OS X naming method came when moving the files out of the Faxes folder.

If you had a FAX from Unknown.pdf file, moved it, then got another Fax from Unknown.pdf come in, it would replace the other file when moving it to the other folder.

With the full time/date stamp in the file name, this doesn't become a problem anymore.

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James Hromadka



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