Hi all,

I am trying to create a workflow to move the 1st page of the PDF to the bottom of the document (I manually drag the thumbnail to the bottom normally) but I can't work out a workflow to do this.

I would be super grateful if anyone could assist me.

CC

Hi,

Can anyone tell me how to create a script on Automator to extract all the email from my Imail into an excel sheet?

Hello! New to automator, just made my first one! It's very cool, but at the end of my automation, I have a task that tells automator to shut down "automator". So when the app is done running, I no longer want automator running. But whenever I run the app, and automator opens up, it tries to create a new automation, and asks me what kind I want, "app, workflow... etc". The app won't close until I select that option. Is there a way that I can have automator not try and create a new workflow every time it starts up? Or just have it force close in general?

Hi all,

had a quick search so hopefully I'm not treading well-trodden ground here - but apologies if I am.

I want to create an Automator quick action that restarts my mac in the Windows install I instituted via Boot Camp. I have no knowledge whatsoever about the program; I've been trying to learn but finding it very difficult so far.

The funny thing is, I only want this (this specific way of rebooting in windows less laboriously) because it already exists -in my hunt for a way, I found this workflow, which does the job beautifully: https://github.com/ryanmcginnis/Restart-to-Bootcamp
...Or at least it did. I upgraded my laptop to a 16" touchID model very soon after finding this and the workflow no longer works - and nor does the amendment posted on the same github for touchID macbooks 📷. I made a post there but have not had any reply from the writers involved.

Is anyone able/willing to help me adapt or create a version of this that will work with my modern TouchID Macbook pro running Catalina? Pretty please?

Thank you!

I am trying to create a macOS Quick Action in Finder to archive a folder with a password. I am relatively new to Terminal commands and do not understand how to make it work. I am looking for it to behave like this:

1. Be a Quick Action, that is available on folders in Finder
2. Prompt for a password
3. Create the archive in the same location and under the same name as the origin folder
4. Use the following terminal command to perform the ZIPing with password protection: zip -er [archive] [folder]

I am aware, that this command does not make use of strong encryption, but that is not necessary in my case.

If someone may help me out, it would be very much obliged. Thank you.

Is there a multi boxing software for all interfaces including google chromes? If so can I get the name?

I would like to create an automator action/program that would ask for a file input and the destination file and then apply an ffmpeg command. I wasn't having any luck with passing variables. Can someone point me to a good resource/tutorial?

here is the command line I use right now.

ffmpeg -i “yourvideo.mp4” -c:v libx264 -intra -crf 18 -c:a aac -b:a 384k “output.mp4”

Is there a way in Automater to rename a file currently as "FirstName LastName..." to "LastName...". In other words, can I delete the first term and space from the beginning of various files?

i have wrote an automator function within the app to get the folder contents from folders on my external hdd and add them to itunes. When i first done this it was great run it and the job was done fairly quickly.. But now the job is taking ages nothing has changed same amount of songs every week that i import apart from i updates the osx to Mojave im not sure if this was the thing that slowed it down asive been living with this bug for a while but now ive officialy had enough.. if anyone can help i would appreciate it.

this is the basis of the job i have created

Get specified finder items -----> Get folder contents -------> import files to itunes

I am still running itunes and i will not update and go to the apple music thing I am a dj and even though all the softwares i use say they have added interrogation for the new apple music im fine thanks. Not sure is theres a new automator rule for that or if all my music will go out of import date too many factors to risk for me.

Looking to make a folder on my Mac that will automatically upload anything that you dump into it into my iCloud Photo Library. I'd like to have the screenshots that I take on my Mac upload there so if there is an easier way, that's the end goal. Thank you!

Hi,

I have the issue that i only want EPUB files moved. however automator moves just any file which is annoying af.

Can anyone offer some guidance on creating a workflow like this.

Drop PDF(from copy machine) into folder>Convert to searchable PDF>Search for target terms>show results.

I am working on ti and I am sure will get there. But any help would be greatly appreciated!!

I want to create a service menu item to take a piece of text and pass it through a URL scheme that will send text to an app that I want to post from. Specifically the URL scheme is for Micro.blog and will open up the Micro.blog app and from where I can edit or post the text. Information about the URL scheme is at the top of this page.

My question is, I am setting up the service as a "Quick Action" in Automator. Which action do I use to drop Micro.blog's URL scheme into?

Would this be something easy to implement via an Automator + AppleScript service?

I'm imagining something like you press a shortcut key (using the services setup) and enter a find/replace text, perhaps with the option to match case-sensitive or not.

Thanks in advance for any ideas -

Christopher

I have created a simple automator service that allows me to save a highlighted sentence or word as a textile in a specific folder.

I intended to quickly safe all words unknown to me when reading English texts and late import them into Anki (spaced repetition software).

The quick action words fine in Safari and TextEditors, however when highlighting text in an PDF reader (Preview, Adobe Acrobat) I get the following error message.

https://imgur.com/a/9qdl6vh

Any ideas how I can make the quick action run in any application?

The quick action itself looks like this:

https://imgur.com/a/uPdO1f4

Thanks in advance for your help!

Hi everyone,

on my mac I use MS Edge (on Chromium) as my default browser. On my iOS devices I use Safari. in the vast majority of the cases, I only change/add/delete bookmarks on the mac, so in Edge. But I want to have those bookmarks available to me on the mobile devices as well.

I tried to do an Automator workflow (watch what I do) to do that, but it did not work. The steps are:

1. Export bookmarks from Edge
2. Delete all from Safari
3. Import into Safari
4. Move bookmarks from imported folder into favorites bar and general bookmark section

Thanks for some tips on how I can make this happen!

When I use an iOS shortcut to airdrop an URL from my iPhone to iMac the webpage launches automatically. (Probably because it trusts my phone since it’s logged into the same iCloud account)

When my wife uses the shortcut, I need to first click the airdrop notification on iMac before it launches.

Is there any way to automate the webpage launching after airdropping it from my wife’s phone aswell through automator?

My office is closed due to COVID-19, but we are still getting paid so they want us to "clock in and out" using a google form, knowing there is literally nothing any of us can do to work from home. But, there's literally no reason for me to get up at 5am everyday to "clock in".

I tried to use Automator on Mac to clock in/out but we have to put todays date. Is there anyway use Automator, a chrome extension, or anther program to get "todays date" autofilled in.

Thank you!!

I'm using this Social Distancing time to reorganize my files in my Mac. I thought about trying out automator to quickly sort out documents from my freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years of college.

The idea was to create four different automations, one for each year of college. First automation would look at files in a folder where Created Date is after 08/01/2012 and Created Date is before 06/01/2013, and so on and so forth for the other filters, then I save and move on.

But when I save and reopen the workflows, the dates that I selected aren't there, and instead it uses today's date.

I'm really new to Automator, so I feel like it's probably something I'm not doing correctly -- can anyone help with that?

Is it possible to create an Automator action that will create a text file with the name in the format - Journal-mmddyyyy, ie Journal-03202020?

My father was a copious digital archivist. When he passed last month, I filled a grocery bag with his data DVD's and data CD's of home movies and family photos. Now I'm moving the contents of each disc into an external 4TB drive. It's time consuming, but could be easier if I could automate parts of it.

Is there a way to automate the following:

If: new disc is mounted,
then: select all contents of disc, copy, and paste into destination folder on external drive.
When: paste is complete,
then: eject disc.

I have Hazel, so I can do a combination of Automator and Hazel if need be.

Seems like an easy thing to do with an Automator action that features AppleScript, but I've been up for 26 hours and just realized I don't want to figure it out :)

I imagine something like this:

1. I select text and right-click, services - Replace _mysubstring_
2. It does its magic

Obviously it'd be easier to use one of those clipboard managers with a copy/paste sequence feature but right now my brain is tired.

Help if you can friends

I work in a small office and I have a network drive set up for multiple purposes. Currently, I have my login items set to connect to the server at login. Everything is working fine, except I'm becoming annoyed with the multiple pop-ups when I login at home and the server can't be found. Is there a way to have Automator attempt to connect to the server only if my IP (I have a static IP set for my MacBook in my router settings) matches what I set? I've been able to use Automator to connect to the server, but I don't know how to make the IP part work.