Ok, I haven't installed and fiddled with this yet, mainly because this applescript stuff seems a little out of my league to fiddle with. however, this seems to be the right thread. Is it possible to resize and save images that are already placed? I just started a project for a client that has a 6000 record database. they have been placing in images as PCT and super-sized jpg's (20+MB) for quite some time. Thus the database is now hugely bloated (4GB). Is there a way to modify this script to batch process thru an existing database by exporting the image, resizing, saving as a JPG, and reimporting (keeping the existing filename)? I dream of getting this database down to a manageable size.

update: i've been fiddling with this for a while. i think the best i can determine is found here: Link last post where it is stated that "the Finder's duplicate command doesn't behave the same way under 10.5 than under 10.4."

Thoughts?

Edited July 16, 200916 yr by Guest

Ok, so the update is that I downgraded my laptop to 10.3 and filemaker 7 to try to get this to work. Still no luck with either the database or the script. the script gets much further than before... It now stops at "do script FILEMAKER script "Insert Picture""

Wow has it been over a week that i've been fiddling with this? Really. Ugh. Oh well, at least I came up with a sloppy, but successful three step solution.

I used the apple automator to create a script that would select and copy the field I want to rename the file to, then export the image, paste the collected name into the save dialog, and select the next record.

To make the automator file loop, just google 'loop automator' and you'll find an app that makes the script loop.

Once the images were out and had the correct names, I batch processed them with photoshop and created a similar automator script to reimport them into filemaker.

This time, the script copy's the name field and pastes it into the "find" area of the open dialog to select the file.

a little slow, but effective and still better than doing it by hand.