Extracting Finder comments to import to Portfolio (Mac OS)

Is it possible to extract the finder comments to the description field in the catalogue or any other field?

Scenario: you have a lot of pictures downloaded from the web and the finder comment shows the URL. You wish to add the URLs to your Catalogue.

Here is source code for an AppleScript that shows how to extract information from the Finder Comments field into the Portfolio Description field. To use it just put it in the Portfolio Application's "Scripts" folder, re-start Portfolio, then open your catalogue and select the items in the gallery you want to run the script on. Then select the script from the "Scripts" pull-down menu.

-- 1.0 - Check to make sure Portfolio is running
tell application "Finder"
 set P_app to every process whose name contains "Portfolio"
 if P_app is {} then
  display dialog "Portfolio must be running for this script to operate." buttons {"OK"} default button {"OK"}
  return
 end if
end tell

tell application "Extensis Portfolio"
 set theCount to count every record of the selection of front gallery
 repeat with i from 1 to theCount
  set filepath to field "Path" of record i of the selection of front gallery
  tell application "Finder"
   if file filepath exists then
    set filecomment to comment of file filepath as text
    tell application "Extensis Portfolio"
     set the field "Description" of record i of the selection of front gallery to filecomment
    end tell
   else
    display dialog "File not found - Check Portfolio Path or Update Catalog!"
   end if
  end tell
 end repeat
end tell

Question: Extracting Finder comments to import to Portfolio (Mac OS) [FAQ00110.htm]
Last Update:- 31 May 2006

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