What I am trying to do: I have to scan some personal writing that I do for my mentor to review, I have 3 types of writing J,F,W. I use my scanner to send them via email (it's a work thing so I can't change it). I had this idea this morning that I could put the code in the subject line on the scanner and then have a rule to process the emails and file them in the correct folder for me.
I found and reused the script in the post Save attachments from Mail.app based on subject
, answer from markhunte
I am using Mail in MacOSX 10.13.6
In order to do testing, I commented out the mail rule function.
My testing is just from me to manually select the messages in the mail app (will convert to rule once working).
One thing I can't get my head around is the first time it saves the file it does not rename the file. You will see that I have used logs to help me figure this out. On the first run of the script, the IF statement thinks the folder exists and so does not rename the file, rerun the script and it renames it correctly.
Feeling a little confused, help would be really appreciated.
My email has subject lines with one letter in them (I do that when I scan documents to make it easier). The attachment name is always scan.pdf
There does appear to be an issue with the codeList as well, it does not find the first item in the List (hence why I have J twice), not a big deal currently.
(*using terms from application "Mail"
on perform mail action with messages theMessages for rule theRule*)
set codeList to {"J", "F", "W", "O", "J"}
set subFolder to ""
set theDate to do shell script "date +%Y_%m_%d_%H%M%S"
--set ruleName to name of theRule
-- The folder to save the attachments in (must already exist)
tell application "Finder" to set attachmentsFolder to ((path to home folder as text) & "Desktop") as text
tell application "Mail"
set theMessages to the selected messages of the front message viewer
--set theMessage to first item of theMessages
repeat with eachMessage in theMessages
set theSubject to subject of eachMessage
repeat with i from 1 to number of items in codeList
set this_item to item i of codeList
if theSubject contains this_item then
set subFolder to this_item
log "Found subject match " & this_item
else
-- display dialog "no subject " & this_item
log "no subject " & this_item
end if
end repeat
if (count of (eachMessage's mail attachments)) > 0 then
log "Number of attachments is " & (count of (eachMessage's mail attachments))
try
tell application "Finder"
if not (exists folder subFolder of folder attachmentsFolder) then
make new folder at attachmentsFolder with properties {name:subFolder}
end if
end tell
-- Save the attachment
repeat with theAttachment in eachMessage's mail attachments
set originalName to name of theAttachment
set savePath to attachmentsFolder & ":" & subFolder & ":" & originalName
tell application "Finder"
if (exists file originalName of folder subFolder of folder attachmentsFolder) then
set savePath to attachmentsFolder & ":" & subFolder & ":" & theDate & "_" & subFolder & "_" & originalName
log "File will be saved to path: " & attachmentsFolder & ":" & subFolder & ":" & theDate & "_" & subFolder & "_" & originalName
else
log "Found that file path already exits: " & attachmentsFolder & ":" & subFolder & ":" & theDate & "_" & subFolder & "_" & originalName
end if
end tell
try
save theAttachment in file (savePath)
log "saved file to " & savePath
end try
end repeat
on error error_message number error_number
end try
else
log "Number of attachments is " & (count of (eachMessage's mail attachments))
end if
end repeat
end tell
(*end perform mail action with messages
end using terms from*)
Best Answer
I found it. The first setting of savePath does not have the extra code to rename the file (for whatever reason). I also got some start of week code included to create dynamic week folders.
Was:
set savePath to attachmentsFolder & ":" & subFolder & ":" & originalNameNow:
set savePath to attachmentsFolder & ":" & subFolder & ":" & theDate & "_" & originalNameFull Code: