Ok, I´m new to scripting, so please bear with me.
So, I have an iMac with a pictures folder called Album containing several subfolders with pictures. As per now, the folder Album (with subfolders and pictures) are mirrored into Aperture using import as Projects and albums. Thus, Album is the project in Aperture, and the subfolders are albums, and the pictures within the albums are just referenced to the Finder folder local files (subfolder files).
Now, the pictures folder Album on my iMac is synced against a network drive at a weekly basis, whereas new subfolders with pictures and/or new pictures within existing subfolders might have been introduced. So what I´m aiming at is to use Automator/Applescript to automatically import new subfolders / pictures into the existing Aperture structure.
However, with the Automator workflow / Applescript presented below, I receive an error message stating Can not get alias iMac HD:Users:Kjoglum
ictures:Album:Folder:File.extension. Where Folder then is a subfolder within Album and File.extension is a jpg picture.
1. Get specified Finder items (target folder set to the Finder folder Album)
2. Get folder content (including subfolders)
3. Filter Finder items
- Kind is not folder
- Date created last X days
The output files from this task enters an Applescript
As mentioned above, I end up with an alias error at the first import command.
Any ideas/suggestions?
So, I have an iMac with a pictures folder called Album containing several subfolders with pictures. As per now, the folder Album (with subfolders and pictures) are mirrored into Aperture using import as Projects and albums. Thus, Album is the project in Aperture, and the subfolders are albums, and the pictures within the albums are just referenced to the Finder folder local files (subfolder files).
Now, the pictures folder Album on my iMac is synced against a network drive at a weekly basis, whereas new subfolders with pictures and/or new pictures within existing subfolders might have been introduced. So what I´m aiming at is to use Automator/Applescript to automatically import new subfolders / pictures into the existing Aperture structure.
However, with the Automator workflow / Applescript presented below, I receive an error message stating Can not get alias iMac HD:Users:Kjoglum
ictures:Album:Folder:File.extension. Where Folder then is a subfolder within Album and File.extension is a jpg picture.1. Get specified Finder items (target folder set to the Finder folder Album)
2. Get folder content (including subfolders)
3. Filter Finder items
- Kind is not folder
- Date created last X days
The output files from this task enters an Applescript
Code:
on run {input, parameters}
repeat with f in input
tell application "Finder"
set fileName to name of (f)
set parentFolder to name of container of (f)
end tell
tell application "Aperture"
tell library 1
tell project "Album"
if (exists album parentFolder) then
set theProject to album parentFolder
import f by referencing into theProject
## Would like to include a code to only
## import file if not already existing
else if not (exists album parentFolder) then
set theProject to make new album with
properties {name: parentFolder}
import f by referencing into theProject
end if
end tell
end tell
end tell
end repeat
end runAs mentioned above, I end up with an alias error at the first import command.
Any ideas/suggestions?
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