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Hi I am using hazel and recently ran into trouble on how to implement something...

I am running issue with filenames longer than 143 characters on my nas and would like hazel to do the following.
Match: Locate files longer than 143 characters
Do: rename file/truncate filename to 143 or at least highlight the file with different color.

Is this at all possible?
Any help is greatly appreciated!!

You'll probably need to write a script to do this. You'd need a script to do the match and then another script to perform the action.

Would anybody be able to help me with the matching script by any chance?
I am a complete noob when it comes to apple script or shell scripts.

If you don't get a response here, I suggest checking out some AppleScript forums and see if anyone there can help you.

I think I got it in the end after long browsing...

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tell application "Finder" to set theName to name of theFile

if length of theName > 140 then
   return true
else
   return false
end if