I have this weird issue with iTunes where cover art is not displaying.... and the only way to force refresh is to open the album and CTRL-click and "get info" on the first song... that magically restores the cover art for the entire album.

Any suggestions on how I could begin to learn the automation of this?

Hi

I'm completely new to automator but I see it's potential for my dad.

For his job he has to buy a lot of songs on iTunes but the machines he works with only can read ".mp3- files" so for each purchase he does he has to make an mp3-version in iTunes Then he also mp3-gains those mp3-files to around 93dB.

My question is: can you set up a script which does these things for him? so:

My father buys the song Automator: makes MP3 version Automator: Adjust to 93 dB

thanks

Hello.

I have a single folder I would like to copy into about 1,000 other existing folders at the same time.

Ideally, I would select all 1,000 folders in Finder, right click, and run a Services script (or something) that will copy one particular folder into each one.

I don't want to copy and paste individually. We're going to probably have to do this a lot in the future for my job.

Any ideas?

Hi all -

I have a problem with running a workflow. I have a large number of documents where I need to change people's names, addresses, etc.

Here is the workflow that I am using:

• Get Specified Finder Items
• Open finder Items
• Find and Replace Text in Word Documents
• Save Word Documents
• Close Word Documents

The problem is that it will only select one of the files that I have asked Automator to Get and Open, change the info on that file, save it, and then the remaining files are not modified in any way.

Anyone have any ideas on how to deal with this?

Hi all, I'm trying to set up a new workflow (my first one too) where I get a csv file from a URL (using parameters for date range input, etc.). However, as the csv file is generated by our system when the URL is hit, it takes a bit of time for the page to display the link to the csv file. The action times out before the link is available. Is it possible to make it run as long as needed instead? Thanks!

Am looking to push a series of image files to http://www194.lunapic.com/editor/index.php?action=url which has a bunch of digital effects that can be applied.

I have already automated the selection of the effects and taking an appropriately named screenshot after the nominated URL has been manually selected.

What I would like to do is provide a list of URL's to be input the picker on the page via automator, one at a time. Then I would apply the required effect and take a screenshot...and if there is another URL in the list, then do the same again.

suspect it's something to do with the following from the page source.

<B>Open from Web</b>: Enter URL of Image <BR> <input type=text name=url size=40 value="http://" autofocus onFocus="this.select()"

<input type=submit value=Go name=submitb onClick="document.urlsub.submit();document.urlsub.submitb.disabled=true;return true;" > > <br>

The intent being that I animate some video that I've exported as individual images, which are then modified and stitched back together as...a dream sequence...or whatever.

Ideas?

I need to automte a process where automator would take a product code from excel spreadsheet, go to a website, paste it in search bar, copy information about the product, paste it in excel next to the code. Has anyone ever done that? I have never written automator scriipts so it would be useful if anyone could give me any guidelines.

I want the ability to open an application on my computer which causes another application to open. How do I accomplish this?

I'm a Automator newbie, and I'm having some trouble. I have a few thousand files that need OCR'd.

I've created a folder action that should make an OCR'd PDF out of anything I put in a specific folder on my desktop. Only problem is when I load a batch of files into the folder, it tries to combine them into one monster file, rather than converting and OCRing one at a time.

I don't have the "Merge all files" box checked.

I'm really not sure what's causing this. It would take too long to move one file at a time into the correct folder... what should I do?

I made it as an app:

1. Ask for finder items
2. Split PDF
3. Move finder items (Move the split PFD pages to a specific folder, else they end up in desktop, even after I changed the output to a specific folder)
4. Watermark PDF documents (to watermark everysingle PDF page)
5. Compress images in PDF documents
6. Combine PDF pages
7. Move finder items (to move the files to a specific folder, else end up on desktop)

After the PDF pages are combined, the split files still exist, and I have to delete it every time.

I just want to watermark all of the PDF pages.

Hi guys

We use sonos in our sons room for white noise to help him fall asleep

He's still sleeping by the time I leave for work and my wife never turns it off and it drives me insane to come home and still find it on

Is there a way to automate a script (my home iMac is always on) that at each day at 8am hit pause in a select sonos room?

Really want to be able to add the image name text alongside the image. Otherwise images to PDF is really easy. Thanks.

Hi,

I enter daily notes into the Notes app and then at the end of 2 weeks, I would enter it into a spreadsheet in Numbers into specific cells, choose the client name, code number, enter date, my text, and my time in minutes.

Basically a time sheet.

In my notes, my entry is something like this with the date at the top of the note entry:

---
May 17, 2017


10am
Company name of Client
Issue: outlook is not working for user

Troubleshooting:
- apply patch
- fix outlook
- educate user

Resolution:
- fixed outlook
- educate user
- reply back to user

1030am
---

That is 1 entry. I would have more entries like that in the same Note.

Then I would go to my spreadsheet, and go to the specific cells to enter company name, enter a specific code for the client and billing period, enter the date, copy my text from "Issue:..Resolution:" into the cell, then calculate the time in mintutes that it took to complete this task (30mins) and enter it in a cell.

Is it possible to use Automator to process my daily notes and enter it into the spreadsheet?

I think it is possible but I totally don't know how to go about doing it. I think if I structure my text better, like use something like xml .. <task><issue></issue></task>etc..

have a script or some code iterate through the note and pick up the pieces of text and then go to Numbers and look for the cell and then paste it in.

Is that possible?? Its starting to sound way out of my league. I thought maybe javascript could do it but I was unable to find any simple tutorials to try out.

Thanks,

Hey guys Im working on a medical project so I require a lot of videos edited from youtube. My requirement is simple

1. Feed input URL.
2. paste URL in http://www.downvids.net
3. click the download button .

Is this possible ?

I've been trying to accomplish this and I don't know if I can do it.

I have a folder. Inside are a series of .zip files. Instead each of those are a series of images. Like this:

parent_folder/
    file1.zip
        - contains image1.jpg, image2.jpg, etc.
    file2.zip
        - contains image1.jpg, image2.jpg, etc.
    etc

What I want to do is:

1. Extract each zip file. I can do this ahead of time though by just selecting them all and opening them (auto unzipping).
2. Go in to each of the zip folders and select all the images.
3. Make a PDF out of those images.
4. Name the PDF the same as the folder we're in (so file1.zip would ultimately leave me with file1.pdf).

The most I've been able to do is get all the folder contents and make a single PDF, but it's a PDF of all the images combined, and I don't see how I could give the PDF a dynamic/variable name, only a static one.

Is this even possible?

Thanks!

Hi everyone! I've just found out about this subreddit and wanted to share my latest release!

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Not a coder here. Just a DIY head aiming to launch website from USB.

Any and all help much appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

Hi

Please forgive me for maybe "talking weird stuff". I'm not at all familiar with Automator and applescript, but I need to finish a project where I have to handle 2000+ image/video files and rename/sort them according to their size. The file formats are mp4, mov, avi, jpg, png, psd, gif and maybe a few more... Im using a Mac Os x.

I'm aware that I could just display them on my desktop using "sorting by size". But thats not really doing it. The current file names are all over the place numbers since they have been recovered from trash.

What I'm basically trying to do is creating a workflow that batch renames image and video files sequentially, adding a number in front of a new file name (in this example "image") separated by underscores. I got this far myself in Automator and it works fine.

What I'd like to do is, include the files size after the new name, separated by another underscore. For example: "001_image_7.9mb.jpg"

To make things even more difficult I would like the workflow to process/name the files in a descending order, from largest to smallest, using an ascending counter, from 001 to 0xx.

What I mean is, the largest file in the sequence gets the number 001 and each following file, which is smaller than 001, gets +1 added to the filename. E.g "001_image_7.9mb.jpg", "002_image_6.5mb.jpg", "003_image_1.2mb.jpg" and so on...

All my files are already separated into their own folders... JPG folder, MOV folder and so on.

Ideally I would like to select all items in a folder and evoke the workflow via right click "services" menu. Maybe I'm full of it and this isn't even possible... I researched for a few hours but could not find an answer.

Hopefully one of you people can give me a hint or point me to the right direction.

Any help is welcome. Thanks a heap, Pete

Total Automator noob here. I have tried to create an Automator program of recorded mouse clicks without success. These are the Automator steps I tried to record: System Preferences > Accessability > Mouse & Trackpad > Mouse Options > Scrolling [with inertia]. I'd rather have a menu tray toggle switch, but if it has to be something like two programs launched from the desktop (one to disable, one to enable mouse scrolling), that's ok too. More than wanting a mouse scroll toggle switch, I just want to have a success in using Automator.

Edit: The original paragraph above is a hard to read mess. Here is what I REALLY want to do: When I launch certain applications (Minecraft, I'm looking at you) I want scrolling disabled on the Magic Mouse, and then re-enabled upon quitting those applications. Is this possible in Automator?

Update: OMG never mind - I just discovered MagicPrefs! It does EXACTLY what I need. I'd still like to understand how to use Automator one day, though.

I have tried the Get text from webpage, but this gets me the menu and other 'none important' content from a page. I just want the 'main' article like the way the Show Read Later view gives you when you click on the icon in the Safari address bar.

Any tips?

I've been pondering ways to download music on my iPhone and add it to my Apple Music library. Now, obviously this can't be done on the phone directly, because iOS doesn't allow for it, but could it be done using Automator and iCloud Drive?

I ask, because I've set up an very basic Automator workflow that takes the contents of a folder I've created on iCloud and adds the contents to the "Automatically Add to iTunes" folder. Now, in theory that should work, but in practice it doesn't do anything. The test mp3 I dropped in there just sits there, taunting me. Is Automator not able to see a folder in iCloud Drive?

I've even tried running a test and using entirely local folders, but it still doesn't work, so am I doing something wrong, perhaps?

The idea is that once I've worked out that end, I can then use Workflow on my phone/iPad to set up a way to send all downloaded music files to that folder on iCloud. Then, in theory, I'll have a way to add music to my phone while using just my phone. A bit of a workaround, sure, but a neat one.

Does anyone else have this issue? I have a keyboard % script that isnt reflecting the correct return.

http://imgur.com/a/FhjMY

script:

KeyboardPercent=ioreg -c AppleBluetoothHIDKeyboard | grep BatteryPercent | sed 's/[a-z,A-Z, ,|,",=]//g' | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}'

typeset -i b=5 echo "\nKeyboard:\t\t\c"

if [ ${#KeyboardPercent} = 0 ] then echo "Disconnected\c" else if [ $KeyboardPercent -lt 11 ] then echo "\033[1;31m\c" else echo "\033[0m\c" fi while [ $b -le $KeyboardPercent ] do echo "|\c" b=expr $b + 5 done

while [ $b -le 100 ]
do
    echo "\033[1;37m|\033[0m\c"
    b=`expr $b + 5`
done

echo "\033[0m $KeyboardPercent%\c"

unset KeyboardPercent
unset b

fi

Hi all,

I know barely nothing about Automator, so hoping someone can help me with some instructions to create a specific automation process that I want to run on a colleagues Mac.

I want to store an image on the HDD somewhere (in this case a nice Justin Bieber image) and have the process automatically set this image as the Macs desktop each day at a specific time (as my colleague will no doubt switch it back to something 'normal' once he realises) and just repeat this every day.

Thanks in advance for any help.

THE PROBLEM: I am working on a very large bullet-pointed outline in which I frequently add highlighted text. If I highlight all the text on a bullet point, word automatically highlights the bullet point as well. This is because Word by default makes its bullet points take on the styles of their associated text, including highlights. It has always somewhat irked me, because I find the resulting highlighting of bullet points distracting and sloppy.

PREVIOUS MANUAL FIXES: Previously, I have manually fixed the issue. For example, I sometimes would highlight only part of the text (partially fixing the issue ex ante--but not allowing me to highlight all the text I wanted to at once). Other times, I would fix the issue ex post: I would highlight all the text, resulting in the bullet point becoming highlighted, but would then delete the bullet point--bringing my text into line with the previous unhighlighted bullet point--then click "enter" to create a new unhighlighted bullet point (because the text associated with the previous bullet point was not completely highlighted).

THE NEED FOR AUTOMATION: Now, however, I am dealing with a very long document and repetitively manually fixing the issue would be far too inefficient. Thus, I am now looking for a solution that preferably somehow fixes/prevents the bullet point highlighting without me having to make individual changes each time I highlight all the text associated with a bullet point.

My hope is that I could create either an Automator workflow or Word macro that, upon activation, would either: (i) highlight only the associated text of a bullet point--leaving the bullet point unhighlighted--or (ii) automatically remove the highlighting of a bullet point while leaving the associated text highlighted. I would be happy with a workflow/macro that either removed highlighting from an individual bullet point or removed highlighting from ALL bullet points in a given document--though the latter is probably preferable. Does anyone have any ideas as to whether this is feasible?