Hello There,
I’me trying for 3 hours to extract date from file name.
I’ve read 10 thread about this.
I’ve tried using chatgpt.
Unable to understand if my problem comes from localisation or whaever.
Unable to understand if there is many different date for the same file.
My goal is to convert part of file name in “creation date” (ideally) or at least in “date of personnal meta data”.
When asking many many script to ChatGPT unable to correct it :
tell application "DEVONthink 3"
set theRecords to (every record of current database whose type is "file")
repeat with theRecord in theRecords
set theName to name of theRecord
set theDate to extract date from theName
if theDate is not missing value then
set creation date of theRecord to theDate
end if
end repeat
end tell
on extract date from theName
set dateString to ""
set dateRegex to "(?<=-\\s)\\d{8}(?=\\s-)"
try
set dateString to do shell script "echo " & quoted form of theName & " | grep -Eo " & quoted form of dateRegex
end try
if dateString is not "" then
set yearPart to text 1 thru 4 of dateString
set monthPart to text 5 thru 6 of dateString
set dayPart to text 7 thru 8 of dateString
set theDate to date (yearPart & "-" & monthPart & "-" & dayPart)
return theDate
else
return missing value
end if
end extract date
About date I have some other questions :
What are the differences between création date from finder, creation date from DT point of view?
Any help much appreciated. I have the last 3.000+ files date to extract. 