Journal commonchaos's Journal: Apple script to sort directory as you add files to it
This was written because I never like to delete stuff from my "Downloads" directory. I hate having to look through the directory for the last thing that I downloaded, that is where this comes in.
I have my browsers configured to not open my files after download, if I did, I would probably configure the delay to be more like 10 minutes or so.
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
tell application "Finder"
set theDate to current date
set todayDate to month of theDate & " " & day of theDate & ", " & year of theDate as text
if not (exists folder todayDate of this_folder) then
set the target_folder to (make new folder at this_folder with properties {name:todayDate})
delay 2
else
set the target_folder to folder todayDate of this_folder
end if
repeat with i from 1 to number of items in these_items
set this_item to item i of these_items
move this_item to the target_folder
end repeat
end tell
end adding folder items to
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