On Thursday, December 27, 2001, at 11:55  AM, Chris Stasny wrote:

>> Please...
>>
>> I have taken the liberty of cc'ing the fb list since the xfb list is 
>> in restructure... please forgive me ;-)
>>
>> I have written an AppleScript to run under OS X that will delete from 
>> the front of file names any digit, space or ".". The problem is that 
>> AS under X does not recognize the leading "." as part of the file's 
>> name; my best guess is that it considers the "." to be an extension 
>> separation character. How would one successfully select a leading "." 
>> in a file's name in OS X?
>
> I dunno, Charlie. But I would be cautious about deleting leading spaces 
> and digits. These are used with some regularity.
> --
>
> Best,
>
> -STAZ  ~)~
>

I understand, Chris. I wasn't deleting them from all file names just 
those in my iTunes library folder. Sound Jam MP likes to put the track 
number and a "." in front of CD rips.

Thanks,

Charlie Dickman
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