{"id":511,"date":"2012-03-14T10:25:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T17:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.0.1.201\/?p=511"},"modified":"2012-03-14T10:25:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T17:25:39","slug":"save-list-of-folder-contents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/14\/save-list-of-folder-contents\/","title":{"rendered":"Save list of folder contents"},"content":{"rendered":"

[UPDATE] Revisited this one and made it a little nicer. It is faster and gives a total count of directories and files, skips invisibles (but you can undo that), and doesn’t error on item names longer than 31 characters. Confirmed to run on 10.4, YMMV.<\/ins><\/p>\n

This AppleScript will create a file containing a tree style list of all files inside the chosen directory and save that list in a file created in that directory. The list file will include the path of the listed directory as well as the date and time it was saved and a tally of me bananas… er, folders and files under the starting directory.<\/p>\n

The default directory in the choose dialog is the folder of the Finder’s frontmost window unless there are no Finder windows. In which case the default is the Desktop folder.<\/p>\n

It does not follow aliases (not sure about symlinks) and will indicate an alias by placing ” [alias]” behind the file name.<\/p>\n

This is actually a modified version of a script that’s been around the web for years.<\/p>\n

-- http:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/<\/p>\n

set fileList to \"\"
\nset d_count to 0
\nset f_count to 0
\nglobal fileList, d_count, f_count<\/p>\n

on listFolder(f, s)
\n\tlist folder f as alias without invisibles
\n\trepeat with i in the result
\n\t\tset finfo to (info for alias (f & i))
\n\t\tif folder of finfo then
\n\t\t\tset d_count to d_count + 1
\n\t\t\tset fileList to fileList & s & i & \"\/\" & return
\n\t\t\tlistFolder(f & i & \":\", s & \" \")
\n\t\telse
\n\t\t\tif alias of finfo then
\n\t\t\t\tset f_count to f_count + 1
\n\t\t\t\tset fileList to fileList & s & i & \" [alias]\" & return
\n\t\t\telse
\n\t\t\t\tset f_count to f_count + 1
\n\t\t\t\tset fileList to fileList & s & i & return
\n\t\t\tend if
\n\t\tend if
\n\tend repeat
\n\treturn {fileList, d_count, f_count}
\nend listFolder<\/p>\n

try
\n\ttell application \"Finder\" to set cwd to (POSIX path of (folder of window 1 as string)) as POSIX file
\non error
\n\tset cwd to path to desktop folder
\nend try
\nset theFolder to (choose folder \"Select a folder to list:\" default location cwd) as string<\/p>\n

--This will get the name of the folder for use in the name of the generated file
\nset folderName to name of (info for (theFolder as alias))<\/p>\n

--This will get the Unix style path of the folder for info purposes inside the file itself
\nset folderPath to POSIX path of theFolder<\/p>\n

set infoList to listFolder(theFolder, \"\")
\nset fileList to \"# File list of: \" & folderPath & \" on \" & (current date) & return & item 2 of infoList & \" folders and \" & item 3 of infoList & \" files total.\" & return & return & item 1 of infoList<\/p>\n

set listFile to ((theFolder) as text) & \"!File list of this folder (\" & folderName & \")\" & (do shell script \"date \\\"+ %Y-%m-%d %H%M\\\"\") & \".txt\"<\/p>\n

tell application \"Finder\"
\n\tset newFile to (open for access file listFile with write permission)
\n\tset eof newFile to 0
\n\twrite fileList to newFile
\n\tclose access newFile
\n\topen listFile as alias
\nend tell<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[UPDATE] Revisited this one and made it a little nicer. It is faster and gives a total count of directories and files, skips invisibles (but you can undo that), and doesn’t error on item names longer than 31 characters. Confirmed to run on 10.4, YMMV. This AppleScript will create a file containing a tree style […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10,28],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code","tag-applescript-2","tag-os-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}