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Old Adium Logs

Posted August 8th, 2003 @ 11:40pm by Erik J. Barzeski

This script made short work of 58 "out of date" Adium log folders:

property logsFolder : "Gaia:Users:iacas:Library:Application
Support:Adium:Users:iacas:Logs"
set cutoffDate to ( (current date) - (90 * days) )
tell application "Finder"

    set folderList to (folders of folder logsFolder)

    repeat with i from 1 to count of folderList

        set AliasPath to item i of folderList as alias

        set folderMod to modification date of (info for AliasPath)

        if folderMod 


Note: that first line is wrapped so it'll fit better on this page. Don't wrap your logsFolder if you use this script.

6 Comments »

6 Responses to "Old Adium Logs"

  1. | Reply Etan
    Posted 09 Aug 2003 at 12:13am #

    Why would you want to delete old logs? You never know when they may become useful and it's not like they take up gigs of space...

  2. | Reply Erik J. Barzeski
    Posted 09 Aug 2003 at 12:38am #

    Well, if I haven't talked to someone in 90 days, then I don't need them around. Keeping them around clutters searches (ahhh, grep), makes the popup list in Adium quite unusable, etc.

  3. | Reply James
    Posted 09 Aug 2003 at 12:55am #

    Didn't I do that in a comment to this entry that was deleted by you?

  4. | Reply Erik J. Barzeski
    Posted 09 Aug 2003 at 9:28am #

    The only posts I've deleted have been rude ones or duplicates, so no. I've modified a few, like yours above, to fix links as well.

    Regardless, thanks for pointing out again a bug that still exists in the AppleScripting section of Mac OS X. I should try this on Panther…

  5. | Reply James
    Posted 17 Aug 2003 at 8:31pm #

    *shrug* I posted the code you made some smart ass remark about double posting.

    Either way I don't think it's a bug in AppleScripting for Mac OS X, since it doesn't work in OS 9.

    Also remember that the Finder scripting dictionary is ancient compared to a lot of the Mac OS X application and work s under different, old style, rules.

  6. | Reply Erik J. Barzeski
    Posted 17 Aug 2003 at 9:59pm #

    It's a confirmed bug. Thanks for playing. 😐