what are these filles
On 16 Jul 2012, at 05:17, Esther wrote:
> HI All,
>
> Just noticed that it might have been confusing to use the "---begin
> script---" line to separate off the AppleScript for batch converting rtf and
> doc files to text. There are only five lines to the AppleScript code. And I
> probably should have added some comment lines to the beginning.
>
> Esther (Commented AppleScript below -- comments take up more lines than the
> code does!)
>
> (* Convert doc and rtf files to text using the textutil convert option
> Written for Sarah on the mac-access list.
> Usage: Run the script and select the folder containing your file in the
> dialog window. The program will create text versions of these files in that
> folder with the same name and .txt extension.
> July 15, 2012 Esther
> *)
> set sourceFolder to choose folder
> tell application "Finder" to set theFiles to files of sourceFolder whose name
> extension is in {"doc", "docx", "rtf"} or creator type is "MSWD"
> repeat with oneFile in theFiles
> do shell script "textutil -convert txt " & quoted form of POSIX path of
> (oneFile as text)
> end repeat
>
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