Re insert file type and creator

[Jim Ault]

A couple of Applescript tips and a working script

[1] Remember, File type and creator codes are always 4 characters long.

[2]  The Finder uses an indirect syntax to refer to a file on the hard drive

as string => 
"Macintosh HD:Users:sivakatirswami:Desktop:_temp:a  tst creator:image.tiff"

as alias => 
Finder does a check to see if the file name (expressed as a string) can
actually be resolved to a valid file on the hard drive.  If so, the 'alias'
becomes a valid reference.

------- copy this code into Script Editor and click Run
--user gets to choose
set theFileAlias to choose file
set theFileStr to (theFileAlias as string)
set theNewAliasRef to (theFileStr as alias)

set theBadFileStr to (theFileStr & "junk")
try
    set theFlawedAliasRef to (theBadFileStr as alias)
    -->oops     without the 'try'
    -- you get an error dialog that the file could not be found
    --- and it aborts the script
    -- error could be bad file name, file permissions, etc.
end try

--note the variations
set theOutputStr to (theFileAlias & return & theFileStr & return &
theNewAliasRef & return & theFileAlias & return & theBadFileStr) as list
------ end copy

Hope this gets you up and running

Jim Ault
Las Vegas

On 7/28/08 9:28 PM, "Sivakatirswami" <katir at hindu.org> wrote:

> J. Landman Gay wrote:
>> Sivakatirswami wrote:
>>> Aloha,
>>> 
>>> semi urgent...
>>> 
>>> Recent upgrade on the fab photo processing tool DXO got us in trouble
>>> because it's outputting .tiff files with no resource fork and
>>> dropping the creator and type on OSX 10.5.4
>>> 
>>> The pre-press team is asking me if i can write a widget to poke TIFF
>>> and 8BIM back into the type and creator slots of the resource fork...
>>> 
>>> Anyone know if we can do this in revolution?
>> 
>> You've probably already done this with the AppleScript solution, but
>> for future reference, you can set a Mac file type using the "filetype"
>> property. So all you'd need to do is something like this:
>> 
>> set the filetype to "????TIFF"
>> put url ("binfile:myfile") into url ("binfile:myNewFile")
>> 
>> Just for the record, if you are trying to set a file type on stacks,
>> you need to use the "stackfiletype" instead.
> 
> I saw the docs on setting the filetype as an environment global before
> writing, andyes:
> 
> global gCTCPath
> 
> on mouseUp
> put fld "Listing" into tFiles
> 
> repeat for each line x in tFiles
> put gCTCPath &"/"& (item 1 of x) into tFile
> set the filetype to "8BIMTIFF"
> put url ("binfile:"&tFile) into url ("binfile:"&tFile&"-1")
> end repeat
> end mouseUp
> 
> works fine. But we prefer to avoid copying these files (some are huge)
> if possible
> 
> For the applescript solution, my rev code is working but not my
> applescript (there is no "the" in the
> syntax, which i found on the web:)
> 
> My script builds this script which should work (I always test in
> Applescript itself...)
> 
> tell application "Finder"
> set creator type of "Macintosh HD:Users:sivakatirswami:Desktop:_temp:a
> tst creator:image.tiff" to "8BIM"
> set file type of "Macintosh HD:Users:sivakatirswami:Desktop:_temp:a tst
> creator:image.tiff" to "8BIM"
> end tell
> 
> generates an error:
> 
> Can¹t set «class fcrt» of "Macintosh
> HD:Users:sivakatirswami:Desktop:_temp:a tst creator:image.tiff" to "8BIM".
> 
> And since I don't have a clue what "class fcrt" means... I'm stuck.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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