Jason Snell's Bad AppleScripts deal with helpful subroutines and parsing nasty file paths.

Scripting routine tasks affords powerful time-saving benefits, if you’re willing to learn a little about automation. Jason B. Jones shows a super-easy way to start learning with AppleScript.

You can modify it yourself to point to a different folder or to target different files. If you remove the qualifier "whose name begins with" and leave the line as " delete (every item of folder ...

If you work like I do, then you have a hierarchy of folders contained in a single folder that allows you to manage project files, notes, etc. Well, when it comes time to chunk those old files ...

I have a folder of about 1800 files that I need to quickly remove files from. I have a TXT document with a list of files that I need to delete. Is there any app or applescript that I can use to ...

“AppleScript for Absolute Starters,” a free booklet written by Bert Altenburg, is designed to teach the basics of AppleScript in Mac OS X 10.2 (“Jaguar”) in a “slow-paced” way.

Yesterday we posted a small AppleScript that will delete the QuickTime .plist file in question, as well as a few other preference files that may cause issues with Safari from time to time.

Everything Announced at Nvidia's 2025 Computex Press Conference Tech Computing Standalone AppleScript for removing performance bottlenecks in Safari (deletes potentially problematic .plist files) ...

Because the AppleScript syntax is so simple, you don’t really need Script Builder for generating one-off scripts. Just open Script Editor, paste in the code above and replace ‘Hello World’ with the ...