Greg's AppleScripts

AppleScript - a great tool for anything you have to do more than 3 times! Here's some of the scripts I've made to get repetative tasks done. Download them, use them, modify them, just don't redistribute them as yours.

All scripts have been written for OS X. The OS 9 Finder is notorious for its poor handling of UNICODE strings, and dealings with files. So if you want to try and use these scripts in OS 9 you may have to tweak them a bit. The earliest version of the system that they've been tested on will be noted by each download link.

Applications/Droplets/Stay-Open Apps

• iTunes DJ 10.2, iTunes 3 - Stay-open app that randomly chooses radio stations from a playlist, using Text to Speech to talk to you (and maybe entertain a bit, too).

Most of these are made to be put in the Script Menu and run from there.

• People Not In Groups (10.2.5) - Creates a new group called "Not Grouped", and puts all people who are not a part of any group into it.
• People Who Don't Get Newsletter (10.2.5) - Creates a new group, and puts all people who are not in the group you specify into it. As the name suggests, I wrote it originally to find all people who weren't marked to get a newsletter.

Download Address Book Scripts

• Recursive File Lock (10.2.5) - Select a folder, and this script will recurse into all subfolders and lock all files it finds.
• Recursive File Unlock (10.2.5) - Select a folder, and this script will recurse into all subfolders and unlock all files it finds.
• Rename Files Ordinally (10.2.5) - Select a folder with files in it, provide a base name and starting number, and this script will give then numbered names, sorting by creation date (eg: "Picture 01", "Picture 02", "Picture 03", etc).

Download Finder Scripts

• Add Date to Comments (10.2.5, iPhoto 2) - Select an album in iPhoto, and this script will add the date from each picture's information at the beginning of its comments. Originally written because I wanted dates and times to be available in web page exports from iPhoto, and Apple hasn't opened its export API.

Download iPhoto Scripts