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November 6, 2012 15:16
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Align your Finder windows side-by-side
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-- By: @SmileyKeith | |
-- Vertically distributes your open finder windows for easy file movements | |
-- Thanks to @elasticthreads | |
tell application "Finder" | |
-- Get the number of Finder windows | |
set window_count to (count every Finder window) | |
-- Make sure there is an open Finder window | |
if window_count > 0 then | |
-- Get the height and width of the screen (only tested with 1 monitor) | |
-- Thanks to http://daringfireball.net/2006/12/display_size_applescript_the_lazy_way | |
set screen_bounds to bounds of window of desktop | |
set screen_width to item 3 of screen_bounds | |
set screen_height to item 4 of screen_bounds | |
-- Get the width that will be used for each window | |
set distributed_width to screen_width / window_count | |
-- Set the starting window x location | |
set window_x_location to 0 | |
-- Loop through each window | |
repeat with window_num from 1 to window_count | |
-- Get the bounds of the current window | |
set window_bounds to bounds of Finder window window_num of application "Finder" | |
-- Get the x, y, width, and height from the window | |
set window_x to item 1 of window_bounds | |
set window_y to item 2 of window_bounds | |
set window_width to item 3 of window_bounds | |
set window_height to item 4 of window_bounds | |
-- Set the new bounds of the window | |
-- Could use `window_height` instead of `screen_height` if you wanted to maintain the original window height | |
set the bounds of Finder window window_num to {window_x_location, 0, distributed_width + window_x_location, screen_height} | |
-- Set the Finder window to column view | |
-- set current view of Finder window window_num to column view | |
-- Hide the sidebar to give you more room to work | |
-- set sidebar width of Finder window window_num to 0 | |
-- Increment the window x location by the windows width | |
set window_x_location to window_x_location + distributed_width | |
end repeat | |
-- Make's the application active, just in case | |
activate | |
end if | |
end tell |
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