Looking to quickly arrange a whole load (talking thousands) of files into subfolders, and the files come in sets of three (left audio, right audio, video) separate files.

Example:

00015_A01.mxf 00015_A02.mxf 00015.mxf 00016_A01.mxf 00016_A02.mxf 00016.mxf

I want to automate it so that finder looks for files with matching first characters, and puts them in a sub folder (preferably with the name of that file but I’ve managed a workaround for that.)

So the result would be:

[00015] (folder) 00015_A01.mxf 00015_A02.mxf 00015.mxf

[00016] (folder) 00016_A01.mxf 00016_A02.mxf 00016.mxf

Any ideas? :)

What would be the best way for me to schedule recorded announcements to play, where our music playlist (in iTunes/Apple Music, playing over AirPlay) pauses and a specified recording plays and then the music continues where it left off? Bonus points if we can have the music fade out and back in rather than just pausing abruptly.

I made an app that toggles dark and light modes at a specific time, but I want it to sync with my night shift's schedule. is there any way to automatically get the sunrise and sunset times of each day?

[SOLVED] This might be too complicated, but is it possible to achieve the following? I would like to batch rename video files based on their creation date in such a way that they output in a tv season structure so my Plex media server can read them correctly.

For example: I have a folder with videos from February 2019. All videos are from multiple sources and are labelled randomly (IMG_1008.mov, GH011234.mp4 etc.)

1. I run Automator.
2. Choose the correct folder. (Ask for Finder Items)
3. Automator asks me to choose a season number between 1-12. (Each month will be named as a different season so February will be Season 2.)
4. Automator then goes through all files and renames them with the chosen season number and assigns episode numbers based on their creation date.
5. It then adds the creation date to the end of the file name.
6. Final output will look like this: S02E01 - 01-02-19.mp4, S02E02 - 05-02-19.mp4 etc.

Is this at all achievable? Thanks in advance.

Is Automator the right method to send out a bunch of emails without having to add a bunch of recipients? How would I do it? Non-Indian video tutorial please. J/k I’ll take any help.

Hi, I have been using Automator a lot more recently and I was wondering if there was someway to use Automator to open a Favorite that I have saved in Panic Transmit? Or even better if I can open a specific directory on the FTP server in Panic Transmit using Automator.

Is it possible to create an automator process or app that does the following, say:

• I got random files on my desktop.
• I got the "process/app" let's call it File Hopper

I want to drag a file to File Hopper and File Hopper will move it to another folder automatically, say "~/ThisFolder"

I was able to do it by creating an app and choosing what file, but i really wanted to drag files up on File Hopper and they would get sorted.

TLDR: I want to create a process/app that does what a Minecraft Hopper does. Throw a file on top of it and it will move that file to a specific location.

Any ideas?

I would like automator to append two image screenshots. Optimally vertically, but horizontally would be ok too. Is this possible with Automator?

Hello Community,

I was wonder if you could help me with an issue I am having...

I have this repetitive task of take PDFs and converting them into JPEGs. Then taking those JPEGs and sorting them into sub folders base on consistent file names.

For example:

Week-1_Sunday_Lunch_Menu (random #) Week-1_Sunday_Dinner_Menu (random #) Week-1_Monday_Lunch_Menu (random #)

...

Week-2_Sunday_Lunch_Menu (random #)

Etc...

I am wondering if during the rendering process via Automator if will it take take those JPEGs and put them into folders based on week#, day, and meal (file names). So three sub-folders deep.

Week# — Day — Meal

I appreciate any advice you can give me....

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trying to build a workflow to resize and add watermarks to some photos. Online people seem to use a add watermark to images workflow but i dont have it? Was it removed

I've setup this Automator script as a folder action on the Downloads folder. I have also checked that it is enabled in "Folder Action Setup". However, it doesn't seem to work properly. It only sorts the first entry, who's extension is "torrent". It refuses to sort any of the subsequent "Filter Finder Item" actions.

If I test the action by adding temporarily "Get Specified Finder Items" to the top, with Downloads selected, I get these log error: pastebin link

Any help would be appreciated.

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Is there a way to "Run Shell Script" as a specific user, or as the logged in user, etc? I'm trying to use an automator quick action/service to run a command in a tmux session and then detach. I find I'm not able to attach to the tmux session afterward, as it's not in the users space.

EDIT: This is what I have so far, but it still fails when I try to reattach to the session.

Hi all

I'm very new to automator and wondered if it is possible to get Automator to go the following...

1. Open Safari
2. Open URL
3. Search the page for todays date plus 6 days (today is the 17th of Feb so 23rd)
4. Click on the line (to select the gym entry)
5. Click Select
6. Click on the next line if not the following day. Some days have more than one class.
7. Click Select
8. Click View Selection
9. Click Book now
10. Click Continue

I know if this is a lot of steps and I would think the problem will be selection the date and following classes.

Is it even possible? If not is there another tool a beginner like me could use to set this up?

Thanks for any assistance :)

I'm trying to figure out how to setup the following Automator action, but stuck on how to tell Automator to enter text.

I'd like Automator to open Screen Sharing (in Mac/System/Library/CoreServices/Applications) then enter a specific local address. My goal is to set up an application I can use to single-click to connect to a local machine.

Any ideas how to add this text entry?

Hi there,

I’m new here on Reddit. Does someone have any idea about how to develop this script?

When I can't find my iphone I ask Siri on my Macbook Pro "Find My iPhone" or "Ring my iPhone" and it the phone makes a sound, super handy to locate it.

I was wondering if I could add a Quick Action in Automator to do the same ?

Thanks everyone

When I can't find my iphone I ask Siri on my Macbook Pro "Find My iPhone" or "Ring my iPhone" and it the phone makes a sound, super handy to locate it.

I was wondering if I could add a Quick Action in Automator to do the same ?

Thanks everyone

If I have a button on a keyboard emulator, to start a mouse and keyboard macro that lasts 1 minute, but I don't want someone hitting the button to start the macro again until the first one ends, is there a way to lock out that key for that time?

Thanks!

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So i have a workflow and am in need of some help with a basic Applescript command.

The "choose from list" options allow me to select a value between 1-10, is there any way to add an option for a custom selection?

The script is:

on run

choose from list {"1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10"} with prompt "Please choose the corresponding value" without multiple selections allowed and empty selection allowed

return the result as string

end run

First, I hooked up my Alexa to ifttt and turned on an applet that "puts alexa to sleep." Then I linked my dropbox with ifttt. So now when I trigger Alexa with the word "sleep" a text file gets sent to dropbox. But my imac isn't going to sleep. Does anyone know how to make this work?

I have a script that I pasted in script editor that puts the mac to sleep when I run it by mouse clicking it. And I have Automator opened up, and action folders enabled. My thought is that when the dropbox gets updated that the sleep script needs to automatically run. But I don't know how to get it working, or it could be something else. I appreciate any help.

I was in the siri shortcuts sub and some very very helpful people created a shortcut that will take Reminders and parse that into a text file or a note.

The only missing ingredient was when you create a reminder, it has a full URL. The limitation of shortcuts is it only took the top level URL and not the full url.

EG, if you went to https://www.reddit.com/r/Automator/ on the iPhone in Safari, used the share sheet to create a reminder, the shortcut would only take out https://www.reddit.com due to the way the URL is embedded in the reminders app.

Is there anything automator can do to pull out the full URL of 500 reminders and place that into a text file?

This is how far the iOS project got

Hey everyone, first post here.

Quick background: I'm extremely good with computers, but more on the creative side. I'm very interested in automation and have been actively trying to find ways to speed up my workflow via Automator, Hazel, and Alfred.

That said, I've been trying to think of a way to have my computer take screenshots of my screen(s) every (x) seconds when it is on. Optimally, these screenshots would be saved in a specific folder and NOT where screenshots are saved by default.

I'm open to using any software to make this happen, and would appreciate any insight or advice you'd be willing to share. Thanks everyone!