little script to add Spotlight comments to selected files/folders

Below is a applescript to automate Spotlight commenting, for selected files and folders.

Spotlight comments are way underused, I recon. I use them kinda like a Version Control Management technique, in a way.

Makes life easier (at least for me) to find stuff without doing smarty pants folders....

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Simple script allowing Spotlight commenting for selected files and folders.

created by griffin byron for puginabox.com *)

tell application "Finder"

activate

try

set thisFolder to (target of front Finder window) as alias

on error

choose folder with prompt "Set comments of files in this folder:"

set thisFolder to result

end try

display dialog "Comment:" default answer "" with title "Set Spotlight Comments"

set newComment to text returned of result

get every file of folder thisFolder

repeat with thisFile in result

tell thisFile

if length of (comment as text) is not 0 then

get ", " & newComment

else

get newComment

end if

set comment to (comment & result)

end tell

end repeat

beep

end tell