Create weekly folders, then move contents of folders with same month in filename

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I've got a question that I think would be of general interest to people who like to store things in weekly folders within monthly folders but don't want the hassle of creating them manually.

I am currently using Automator to create folders to store files I've downloaded & keep them in weekly folders. At the moment, every time I save a batch of files I move them into my Downloads folder with the filename format '5 November New Music'. I then have a separate action which moves them into a folder called 'November 2014 New Music'. The next day if I save a batch of files it will be saved into '6 November New Music' and moved into 'November 2014 New Music'.

The folders look something like this:

November 2014 New Music

...1 November New Music

...8 November New Music

...12 November New Music

and so on

But what I really want is weekly folders, so I have also written an action which finds all the folders with the numbers 1 through 7 and then moves their contents into a newly created '1-7 November 2014 New Music' folder.

I'm getting to the question, I promise!

Now, this has taken an awful lot of probably error-prone Automator action work. Is there not a simpler and less risky way I can turn the filename into a variable to move, on a monthly basis, the folders

1 November New Music

6 November New Music

7 November New Music

into a folder called '1-7 November 2014 New Music', and folders called

8 November New Music

9 November New Music

14 November New Music

into a folder called '8-14 November 2014 New Music', and so on?

Maybe it'd be more simply put in a diagrammatic form. I want to click on my 'Downloads' folder, and find the following structure:

January 2014 New Music

...1-7 January New Music

(containing all the files/folders in the folders '1 January New Music', '3 January New Music', '6 January New Music' and '7 January New Music')

...8-14 January New Music

...15-22 January New Music

...22-end January New Music

February 2014 New Music

and so on...

What I can't seem to do is make a workflow that can identify all the folders within a certain folder that begin with a number between 1 and 7 and where the next word in the filename being 'January' and then get it to move their contents to a folder called '1-7 January'. Automator is too blunt a tool to accomplish this, it seems, and my Applescript is really quite basic, but it seems like the sort of thing that would work.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

Tardy

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