Mass conversion of .numbers files to .csv I have a lot of files with a .numbers file extension, and I need to convert them to .csv, so I can more easily work with the data. There are probably about 1000 of them, so opening them in numbers and exporting each one individually is not an option.

Is there some sort of terminal function that could do the job?



Update:

An AppleScript might be able to do the job, and the one provided by Frysk in the comments below gets close. However, it only works one file at a time.

To work in mass the script needs:


to loop through all the .numbers files in a directory
to write csv files to a specified directory
Automator is the tool for the job.

You can do a "watch me do" and have it export an already open file to a new folder as csv. Then stop recording the script.

At that point, you can add an acton to process files and folders so the script will one by one open each file, save it to the new location. As long as the names aren't conflicting, you would have an easy tool.

Better would be to script the actual export options, but start simple and then add the batch processing.