How to "decorate" files in a folder and subfolders?

[craig8128]

Hello, I've been searching all over this morning and had no luck. Perhaps someone here can help me?

I would like to "decorate" (for instance, use Color Labels) on all files in a specific folder and all of its subfolders. Ie, if I have a folder named "My Movie Files" I'd like for all files in that folder (and subfolders) to be Color Labeled with Green whenever I view them with the Finder. Is there a way to do this "automagically" so that when new files or folders are moved into "My Movie Files", they are Color Labeled to Green?

Alternatively: is there any way to "decorate" the Finder so that it has a unique appearance when it is browsing inside of a particular folder?

BTW, the folders in question are many levels deep and may contain thousands of files.

(My reason for asking this: I have multiple NAS drives mounted and I'd like some way to make it in-my-face obvious which drive I'm browsing. I'd love to hear from anyone else who's dealt with this situation).

PS: I'm using Snow Leopard.

Thanks!

Craig8128

 

[Whitehill]

You need to learn about Applescript - in particular, folder actions. See this appendix to the book Mac OS X Snow Leopard - The Missing Manual. I don't know if what you want is doable at all, but this is the place to start. There are likely many other sources.

 

[Mikuro]

Here's an example of how to do it with Folder Actions:

on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items
	tell application "Finder"
		repeat with x in added_items
			set the label index of x to 1
		end repeat
	end tell
end adding folder items to

Drop that in ~/Library/Scripts/Folder Action Scripts, attach it to the folder, and there ya go.

It doesn't handle subfolders, though. You'd need to apply the script to each subfolder individually, AFAIK.