Thanks for the fixes to which you discovered B40 broke. I’ll test them in a couple days.
Smart folders are a good trick, available ‘in the box,’ whenever you need to do batch operations on many randomly located files. If you can construct a Spotlight search, finding all of and just them, you can reuse it like a Find/Select Favorite. If desired you can add Finder tags, which Spotlight can see, to show whether you’ve yet done ‘whatever’ on given files in the batch and create additional smart folders for just those tagged files.
If you select all of a smart folder contents and drag them into a Procedure Window you create a text listing of all their paths. PanX has great tools to search which open dbs have ‘something’ you want to change, but can’t directly parse closed ones. From that listing you could loop through and open briefly otherwise closed dbs to be searched, and generate a sublist that had ‘something.’
I started saving db Procedures to text files prior to PanX and Blueprints being available then wrote comparable PanX code to continue my practice. If I were starting from scratch, knowing what I know now, I’d probably save Blueprints instead, but I’m used to my status quo. They’d have the biggest scope so potentially BBEdit searches could find more than my current approach. On the other hand the bigger scope could return hits I didn’t want, which current approach would skip. I’ll probably append code saving db Blueprints to a different folder to my present procedures. After which I could pick which folder, and thus scope, to search via BBEdit. Then I need to start searching my code for places to swap in SaveAndClose statements as a fair chunk of the error messages I get point to the problem it’s designed to fix!
As a feature suggestion I don’t see any syntext for programatically invoking saved Favorites in Find/Select or other dialogs which offer Favorites and programatic equivalents. You can certainly recreate the equivalent in code, but the ability to utilize a manually saved Favorite, could be convenient.