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pearse_phillips
pearse_phillips
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October 21, 2016
Question

Save in recent places with random name

  • October 21, 2016
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I need some assistance with creating a script. I require a process that saves the current document in the last location ( on a mac I need it to save to the first location under the "recent places" drop down menu).

Then it needs to save it as a a standard name with a random number attached to the end.

So the steps being

1- Save as.

2- finder window locates the location under recent places.

3- saves it as a standard name (eg "art file - ")

4- amends a random number to the end of the name (eg: " art file - 03821920, "art file - 42942829", or "art file - 34324234")

5 - saves file.

I've had difficulty finding out where to begin with this process, I've done a bit of scripting on adobe in the past, but I'm a bit rusty. Any ideas, links or assistance in this would be great.

Thank you so much for your help.

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Silly-V
Silly-V
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October 21, 2016

I think if you have to mess with Finder, you have to probably employ the evil tool known as Applescript.

If you can just get away with hard-coded or text-saved file path to show your script your desired save path, it would make such a script easier and confine it to the realm of just javascript.

To do the random file number I usually do a simple time stamp new Date().getTime() or something. The great thing about getting time since the 1970s is not only hearkening back to an era when things were ultra-groovy, but also that this number will never repeat with every new millisecond that's added to the great book of Time. Namaste.

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