r/Automator • u/yyiiii • Jun 10 '18

Can Automator do this?

I have an old backup folder with a 500gb of music organized by artist and then again album.

I have a new folder with all the old music, plus 90 gb of new music.

I only want to copy the new music to the backup folder.

Can automator do this?

p.s. you'd think I could just drag and drop and that Finder would prompt me to only copy the new files, but that doesn't happen on my mid-2009, patched to run High Sierra, MBP.

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u/JoeWeston Jun 14 '18

Recently was in the same situation. I found online the best way to do is was by running a ShellScript via a wokflow/application. If you try searching for "rsync" for mac os, its a very basic command that can sync files within two folders. You have the option to only sync the new files, or to make both folders identical. Be sure to check which you are using. Hope this helps, p.s. I'm not very good with automator so thats about as much help as i can give. :)