An AppleScript for renaming image and video files by their creation date, within a specific folder.
Uses the EXIF (Exchangeable Image File) creation date meta-data stored for each file.
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Click "Clone or download" (top right), and unzip the downloaded zip file.
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Open the "Terminal.app" application.
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Run the following:
(Do not type the
foo@bar:~$
, as this represents the Command Line prompt)*1*
- Path to the AppleScript file.*2*
- (Absolute) Path to the folder to be modified by the AppleScript.foo@bar:~$ osascript *1* *2*
When the AppleScript has finished successfully, a message will be returned to the standard output:
AppleScript complete!
Examples:
foo@bar:~$ osascript ./Timestamp-Media.scpt /User/John/Desktop AppleScript complete! foo@bar:~$ osascript ~/Desktop/Timestamp-Media.scpt /User/John/Desktop/test AppleScript complete!