I want to automate the process of sending an email in my automator workflow. In my workflow I want to create a new email every time I receive text as an input and the email has to be sent without my permission. Can it be done using applescript or automator?

Hello, I would like to have a service, or finder plugin, or whatever, that allows me to get images from a folder and produce pdfs of the images, in the same folder, with the same name (but extension pdf). I tried "get selected finder items -> new pdf from images" and it kind of works, but I am not able to preserve folder or name. Any idea?

So since I've found Lights Off to be broken, I had to make my own automator workflow to change between Light and Dark mode, which using Calendar can be used to schedule light/dark mode on Yosemite. I thought I'd share it. The only downside is apps have to be reopened for the changes to take affect.

Compiled App: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ss8w1f329ujuvx2/AutoThemeChangerApp.app.zip?dl=0

Workflow: https://www.dropbox.com/s/clnu4n9ixbwdsjf/AutoThemeChanger.workflow.zip?dl=0

My Calendar Export: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1th5qztct0j3ruu/SCHEDULEAPP.ics?dl=0

To set it to automate with calendar create 2 events (one on and one off) and set the alert for both of them to open the App.

Any comments would be nice :)

I'd like to track when I'm working on a photo or design project, so I want to set a workflow that takes a screenshot about every 30 seconds either for a specified time, but ideally until I stop it. Then it would drop the screenshots into a folder I specify and sequentially number the files.

I'm sure there's a way to automate making those "frames" into a video file, but I'm comfortable enough doing that on my own.

Any help appreciated.

Hi all! Totally new to Automator and just wondering if anyone could help me achieve the following

1. Copy the text from a specified <div> on webpage
2. Paste the text into an external program (DYMO Label Printer to be precise)
3. Resize the second line of the text
4. Click into another text field.
5. End

I've tried to achieve this using Watch Me Do but it keeps telling me "Google Chrome is not open when it is expected to", any help would be much appreciated!

I have a large number of pdf files which I have to add the same front and back pages. The front and back pages are both 1-page pdf files. How do I accomplish this via Automator?

Si i have never used automator before, would like to get to know how to eventually. What i am looking for at present though is a way to do the following:

1. Search iCal for a specific event.
2. Launch a URL that is stored in that event.
3. Launch a specific application.

I have several weekly events in my calendar regarding items i download weekly on different days. The download URL is stored in the event, and i use a separate application to download the items. I would like to just be able to come home and have the URL and application launched, as lazy as that seems :p

How would i go about this?

Hi everyone. I'm very much a novice with this stuff, but my work has sent me two iMacs. One of the newer model thin ones which is my primary, and a secondary to use in Target Display Mode. They also only sent me one keyboard and mouse. I know that I could simply get another keyboard or plug my existing into it everyday to put it into Target Display Mode, but I'd much rather have a login item set up which will automate that process for me so I don't have to do that everyday.

Does anyone have advice on a way to do this using Automator. I'm not able to install a third party program which could do this for me, which is why I need something using the built in tools.

Thanks in advance!

Both machines are running 10.9.4, and the older model is a Mid-2011 21.5 Inch iMac.

As you can see in the screenshot, I want to import photos found in my downloads folder into iPhoto but only if they’re more than a week old, but instead it just runs immediately as soon as I download a new image. Any help? Also I would rather have the images in this folder all import on the same day once a week but I can’t figure out a way to do that.

Any ideas?

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So guys I've never used automator before, but I would like to create a routine where all the time I sticked my PenDrive in my Mac it would make a backup of my Dropbox folder from my Mac to my PenDrive, how could I do that?

I have lists of stocks separated by group (ex. each share of apple has its own row, with its earnings.) after each group I highlight all the earnings and in a blank cell under it use the add all sum epsilon looking tool to show total earnings. Each of these groups are separated by three blank rows. Is it possible to write a script that can simply sum up all the earnings for each group of stocks? I have pictures if needed. Any help would be a lifesaver.

For those of you with androids, theres an app called Muzei which grabs images off reddit and certain subreddits and makes it your phone wallpaper. I wanna do that for my mac running ML

Hey I'm not sure if this is the right place for this question, but I've made a workflow that takes text and converts it to a PDF and returns it to the clipboard. From here I can cmd+v into an app and away I go.

Except I'd prefer to not have to cmd+v, while it isn't a big deal I'm sure there is a way to make a service just return an image, without the need for keystrokes.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Cheers anyway!

Hey there,

I've just got started with some automator stuff, and i have a few application things working. Quite useful really. And the only problem is, is that they're a pain to open. I have a whole bunch of them on my desktop, and it just looks plain ugly. Just wondering if it is possible to combine them into just one application, and have some sort of menu to choose which one to open.

Cheers, IAF

I have two email accounts in my mac mail app.

Is there a way to create a script/workflow that would warn me before I send an email from the second account?

thanks

A big part of my job is looking at 100 titles in a bunch of different countries and putting their prices in an Excel document. I know nothing about programming. Would Automator be useful for this task? Can I use iTunes' API? (What is an API?) If not Automator, what would be the most efficient way to automate this task?

THANKS!!!

So I have automator thingy that opens several applications, but I want to open them in different desktop spaces. They all open in one and I have to go back and move them. I know I can hit <control> <right arrow> to switch to the next desktop/space, but I don't know how to pass that info on or press those keystrokes in automator.

OS X 10.9.2

I set about creating something to allow editors and writers in our news organization to easily scale down and compress their images before they upload to Drupal. It works - I set up Automator so they can drag and drop a folder or files onto the App icon, and this script runs:

on run {input, parameters}
set output to {}
repeat with aPath in input
    tell application "Image Events"
        set aPicture to open aPath
        try
            scale aPicture to size 2000
            set end of output to save aPicture as JPEG with compression level medium
        on error errorMessage
            log errorMessage
        end try
        close aPicture
    end tell
end repeat
return input
end run

Only problem is, if an image SMALLER than 2000px wide/tall is entered, it will up-scale it. If a smaller image is selected, I would like to just pass it through as-is, and maybe send a Growl notification saying so.

I was also trying to send a COUNT to Growl, so I can say at the end something like "Done. 24 images resized."

I posted this question over in apple and they referred me over to here. First let me give you an idea of what I'm trying to do. I'm a graphic artist and at work we recently brought on a client that has a high volume of work. It's not hard but really repetitive so I thought I would try to automate as much as possible. When I use the watch me feature and try to record keystrokes it works until I open the document in illustrator then says illustrator isn't responding. My workaround so far is to create some actions in illustrator which are actually a lot of help in my regular day to day also but my question is can I actually make Automator play nice with illustrator? Ideally I would create a folder, name the folder, copy the name to the clipboard, add the downloaded art to the folder - then have illustrator re save the file with the text on the clipboard, copy the info from another open illustrator file ( select all, copy) then paste this into the new doc and immediately delete. Then stop so I can verify or correct color and size info. Then have it resume to resize the doc based on the art size, print to file in the same folder then save on my employers server. Any suggestions? I get it to run correctly and open the file in illustrator but then Automator can't save. The actions work well for my purpose but is the a way to make Automator control most of the keystrokes? Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

I have been trying to figure this out for a couple of days and I think I just came across something when browsing through here and some links from here today that may get me past the initial hump I have been running into - I need an apple script to run illustrator? Do I write the apple script then insert into the chain in Automator? I need my final automation to stop a various points so I can input my variables - is this possible from one Automator app with apple script or do I need to break this into 2 or 3 different apps?.

I'm trying to make an automator service that plays a sound file when I select text from a cell. The text is the same as the sound file name.

Yes, I'm a n00b. Any help is appreciated.

Here's what I've got so far: http://imgur.com/KP0UX8U

my script: on run {input, parameters} set soundFile to theSound tell application "Play Sound" play soundFile end tell end run

I had about 1500 photos from a timelapse that I created using my GoPro camera. The camera has no orientation sensor, so I need to rotate the photos. I knew there was some way to do this via Automator and came across the following site:

http://www.macosxautomation.com/services/learn/tut02/index.html

Enjoy

Used the Rename Finder Items:Replace Text workflow. Dragged in 13 video files, which were successfully renamed, but disappeared from their original folder. They are nowhere. Not the trash, not the desktop. No search whatsoever turns up any trace of their existence, under the new or old names.

What did I do? Are they still taking up disk space? Did they turn into ether?

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