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An AppleScript to Clean Up My Downloads Folder

Posted: Saturday, August 11th, 2007 Tags: AppleScript, Mac OS X

My downloads folder always gets so full after a while that I have a hard time finding things. I like to keep stuff around for a little while in case I need it again, and if I have the space, I like to keep things around for a long time, just in case. So I wrote a simple AppleScript to move old files to an “Old” subdirectory.

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I'm a software developer and consultant in San Francisco. I mostly develop web apps in Javascript, Java and Rails. There's a little more about me on my LinkedIn profile.

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