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How do I add comments from a text-file to an array of folders? - clausneergaard - Dec-29-2022
Hello everyone -
I was just wondering, as I’ve ventured out on bit of a limp here, if anyone have any experience with automating the process of creating folders in macOSX, and in the same process, adding individual comments to each of the folders?
I’ve managed to write the code that creates each of the folders, based on an external txt-file. Now, I want another external txt-file to be the basis of each comment/description that I want to add to each of the created folders.
I feel like I’ve tried everything. Maybe I am getting at this the wrong way … any help or suggestions are very much welcome!!
Thanks in advance.
Claus
import os import xattr from osxmetadata import * folderstextfile = '/Users/clausneergaard/Dropbox/Projekter/21-01 Revit families, dokumentation/Folders (empty)/FoldersList.txt' rootfolder = '/Users/clausneergaard/Dropbox/Projekter/21-01 Revit families, dokumentation/Folders (empty)/Folders' metadata = '/Users/clausneergaard/Dropbox/Projekter/21-01 Revit families, dokumentation/Folders (empty)/FoldersMeta.txt' # Open the file containing the list of names for each folder with open(folderstextfile, 'r') as f: # Read the names from the file, one name per line names = f.read().splitlines() # Open the file containing the list of descriptions for each folder with open(metadata, 'r') as m: # Read the meta-data from the file, one piece of data per line meta = m.read().splitlines() # Create a folder for each name in the list, and also add a comment to each folder in the list for name in names: folders = os.makedirs(os.path.join(rootfolder, name)) osxmetadata.MDItemSetAttribute("This is a comment", "Description") comments = xattr.setxattr('Folders', 'Comments', meta) RE: How do I add comments from a text-file to an array of folders? - stevendaprano - Dec-31-2022
What happens when you run the code showed? Does it work? Do you get an error?
What's in the metadata file? Is that the file holding the comments? Are they also one per line?
RE: How do I add comments from a text-file to an array of folders? - Larz60+ - Feb-08-2023
use mkdir, set exist_ok to True so existing directories won't be overwritten.
example:
from pathlib import Path import os #set current directory same as python script (or to your target directory): os.chdir(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))) homepath = Path('.') newdir = homepath / f"Mynewdir" newdir.mkdir(exist_ok=True)[/python]