I end up downloading a lot of “stuff” — documents from various places on campus, trial utilities, software updates, etc.
While I save the downloads to /Users/me/Downloads instead of the desktop, I often get lost in the leftover download detritus of stuff I still want to get to, but haven’t. So I’ve been wanting some kind of rudimentary ability to file my downloads to some appropriate directory.
Hence my first Applescript — taking advantage of the really cool folder actions feature in Macintosh OS X (Panther).
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items set theDate to current date set folderName to the date string of theDate tell application "Finder" if not (exists folder folderName of this_folder) then make new folder at this_folder with properties {name:folderName} end if end tell repeat with i from 1 to number of items in these_items set this_item to item i of these_items tell application "Finder" move file this_item to folder folderName of this_folder end tell end repeat end adding folder items toI’m not sure I like Applescript all that much (like compared to Perl or PHP) — but it’ll do.