Controlling download folders in Safari

[Sandman]

In article <fishfry-8F5570.22024916072003@netnews.attbi.com>,
fishfry <fishfry@your-mailbox.com> wrote:

> I'd like to be able to have different filetypes go to different download
> folders. For example if I click on a pdf on a website, I'd like that
> file to end up in a pdf folder. If I download some source code from
> CPAN or SourceForge I'd like those to go into a gz folder.
>
> The reason I want to be able to do this is that otherwise, my single
> download folder loads up with everything, and when I go to clean it up
> every few weeks, I have hundreds of files in there and it's time
> consuming to remember what file is what.
>
> Any suggestions on how I could do this?

Folder Actions!

Set up a applescript to react upon new items in a folder and attach it to your
downloads folder. then have the script move the new files if they end in a
given extension.

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[Sandman]

In article <fishfry-8F5570.22024916072003@netnews.attbi.com>,
fishfry <fishfry@your-mailbox.com> wrote:

> I'd like to be able to have different filetypes go to different download
> folders. For example if I click on a pdf on a website, I'd like that
> file to end up in a pdf folder. If I download some source code from
> CPAN or SourceForge I'd like those to go into a gz folder.
>
> The reason I want to be able to do this is that otherwise, my single
> download folder loads up with everything, and when I go to clean it up
> every few weeks, I have hundreds of files in there and it's time
> consuming to remember what file is what.
>
> Any suggestions on how I could do this?

Folder Actions!

Set up a applescript to react upon new items in a folder and attach it to your
downloads folder. then have the script move the new files if they end in a
given extension.

--
Sandman[.net]

[matt neuburg]

In <fishfry-8F5570.22024916072003@netnews.attbi.com> fishfry wrote:

> I'd like to be able to have different filetypes go to different
> download folders.

A small AppleScript program (perhaps as a Folder Action) would solve
this quickly and easily. m.

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[matt neuburg]

In <fishfry-8F5570.22024916072003@netnews.attbi.com> fishfry wrote:

> I'd like to be able to have different filetypes go to different
> download folders.

A small AppleScript program (perhaps as a Folder Action) would solve
this quickly and easily. m.

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[fishfry]

I'd like to be able to have different filetypes go to different download
folders. For example if I click on a pdf on a website, I'd like that
file to end up in a pdf folder. If I download some source code from
CPAN or SourceForge I'd like those to go into a gz folder.

The reason I want to be able to do this is that otherwise, my single
download folder loads up with everything, and when I go to clean it up
every few weeks, I have hundreds of files in there and it's time
consuming to remember what file is what.

Any suggestions on how I could do this?

[fishfry]

I'd like to be able to have different filetypes go to different download
folders. For example if I click on a pdf on a website, I'd like that
file to end up in a pdf folder. If I download some source code from
CPAN or SourceForge I'd like those to go into a gz folder.

The reason I want to be able to do this is that otherwise, my single
download folder loads up with everything, and when I go to clean it up
every few weeks, I have hundreds of files in there and it's time
consuming to remember what file is what.

Any suggestions on how I could do this?

[Daniel Packman]

In article <fishfry-7AB283.10433717072003@netnews.attbi.com>,
fishfry <fishfry@your-mailbox.com> wrote:

>I'd like to be able to have different filetypes go to different download
>folders. For example if I click on a pdf on a website, I'd like that
>file to end up in a pdf folder. If I download some source code from
>CPAN or SourceForge I'd like those to go into a gz folder.
>
>The reason I want to be able to do this is that otherwise, my single
>download folder loads up with everything, and when I go to clean it up
>every few weeks, I have hundreds of files in there and it's time
>consuming to remember what file is what.
>
>Any suggestions on how I could do this?

You could leave the download process itself alone and set up
a cron job. Say, run it every night and have a line for
each type of file and a corresponding directory.

#!/bin.sh
mv *.gz gz
mv *.pdf pdf

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Daniel Packman
NCAR/ACD
[email]pack@ucar.edu[/email]

[Daniel Packman]

In article <fishfry-7AB283.10433717072003@netnews.attbi.com>,
fishfry <fishfry@your-mailbox.com> wrote:

>I'd like to be able to have different filetypes go to different download
>folders. For example if I click on a pdf on a website, I'd like that
>file to end up in a pdf folder. If I download some source code from
>CPAN or SourceForge I'd like those to go into a gz folder.
>
>The reason I want to be able to do this is that otherwise, my single
>download folder loads up with everything, and when I go to clean it up
>every few weeks, I have hundreds of files in there and it's time
>consuming to remember what file is what.
>
>Any suggestions on how I could do this?

You could leave the download process itself alone and set up
a cron job. Say, run it every night and have a line for
each type of file and a corresponding directory.

#!/bin.sh
mv *.gz gz
mv *.pdf pdf

--
Daniel Packman
NCAR/ACD
[email]pack@ucar.edu[/email]