Questions tagged [automator]
An application developed by Apple for macOS that implements the creation of workflows.
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Automator Make an app run if the password is correct, otherwise do something else
Is there a way to make it so that when I login, the automator asks me for a set password, and if the password is incorrect, it runs an action.
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Automator: use filepath / filename in AppleScript
In an automator app, there is a Copy to Clipboard and a Run Apple Script. If I assign this app to a certain file extension, by double clicking in Finder, the Copy to Clipboard function gets the ...
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In Mac Automator, how can I pull text from an email and paste it into other programs?
macOS 11.6.5
I receive email orders at my company. The orders are always in the same format. I created some sample data below. Items I need to extract are email address, customer name, shipping ...
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Automator : convert files by X number per batches
I'm using Automator to compress, rename and delete files. For the moment I created a Workflow which do just that with the selected files. I usually select by batches of 10, 15 or 20 and use this.
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Running multiple application instances on different cores Mac Studio M1 Ultra
I've been running different Blender instances using the Automator and running the shell command to open up Blender in multiple instances. My issue is the CPU usage does not increase when rendering on ...
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Python Script Using Efficiency Cores Rather than Performance Cores in M1
I am using moviepy to automate clips to make a video. I am using python 3.10. When I run from pycharm, it is using performance cores to render my videos. But when I moved to crontab to schedule this ...
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Recording application oriented mouse and keyboard actions
I want to make a mouse movement and some keyboard strokes after I start recording my screen. The mouse and keyboard action will click some elements inside the application I am recording.
One can ...
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How to move/copy/process files based upon any extended attributes in Terminal/shell?
I need to move a number of files based on various extended attributes, but it's not clear how to test and take action based on these. For a basic example, what if I were to want to find and move all ...
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Trying To Run ExifTool From AppleScript In Automator
I have a small AppleScript setup in Automator which does the following.
Prompts user to select a json file
Prompts user to select a folder
It is then supposed to execute Exiftool located in /usr/local/...
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How to resize multiple photos (batch) in Apple Photos app on macOS
Having 1 TB of photos and videos in Photos.app, one might want to resize some old photos or even videos so that the changes are perfectly (keeping all metadata) updated in the Photos.app and the ...
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Automatic run of shell script with screencapture
I am trying to automate a screen capturing of my machine.
The issue I had is no software out there (I have found so far) cannot screen all monitors at once.
I ended up with a shell script, that is ...
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Batch annotating/signing PDFs
I frequently use the Preview sign function for adding e-signatures to PDFs.
I now have around 90 documents which are all essentially identical which I need to sign, and I'm wondering if there's a way ...
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Old MacBook, how to reinstall OS (fine to delete all data on the drive), but screen doesn't work
I've been using this MacBook for years even though the screen is damaged -- I just use an external monitor.
So what's the problem?
I want to reinstall the OS -- take it back to the base state, ...
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How would you automate clicking on an online page with AppleScript?
I want to select the inbox folder name on Gmail (on Google Chrome) using AppleScript.
The conundrum is that I know there is a script where you can tell an app to click on a picture, URL, a link, a ...
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"Quick Action" service only works once by shortcut
I created a quick action with a shell script:
open -n /Applications/Alacritty.app
And it could open alacritty multiple times when debugging in automator.
Then I assigned this service by a shortcut &...
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How to script changing to a difference user and then running command with their sudo permissions -MacOS
Whenever I reboot my macbook, the bluetooth USB doesn't work until I run:
sudo pkill bluetoothd
I'm trying to make user Automator to run an AppleScript, so my SO can click on an icon on the desktop ...
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How to automate copy paste task from chrome to csv in macbook?
I am trying to automate the task in chrome. The task involves these steps:
Open a website
Open the network tab in developer tools
Scroll to the end of the infinite loading page
Copy the first payload ...
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Automator action to paste a word in all fonts
How would I write an Automator action or Applescript to paste or type a word in every single font? The screenshot is what I have so far. The hitch I'm running into is in the "make a selection ...
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Troubleshooting unexpected automator behavior
I am trying to make an Automator program which allows me to add a service that will create a new email with iCloud+'s hide my email service by selecting text, selecting the service in the context menu,...
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Loop through this folder content and delete first file
I'm trying to delete the first file from each subdirectories of the main folder using automator.
Parent Folder
├── 160x600-SubFolder1.1
│ ├── AnotherSubFolderEN-Test display_a98765bcd0e12345fg
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Error while making automator service to archive files with tar
I wrote an automator service to be create tar archives using the tar command, due to this format being more efficient than the .zip that the "Compress" option in the finder menu gives me. ...
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Automate arranging files into folders based on part of file name?
Looking to quickly arrange multiple thousands of files on my iMac into subfolders with the folder name being based on the characters before the first dash of file name (the title of the series). Not ...
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Change the contents of a file based on time of the day
On macOS, I have a Config file for a PDF viewer application, Sioyek that lets me change the background and text colours through a custom configuration combination. However, the app only allows one ...
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Automator Applescript - Editing "Watch Me Do" action doesn't work
I am trying to get a workflow in Automator.
I recorded action via "Watch Me Do". And when I replayed, it works well.
When I dragged this action into AppleScript editor, it does not work ...
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How to use Automator to save a PDF's Metadata to Variable
Essentially I wanted to get the author or title and save it as a variable to use as a subject for an email I am generating through automator. This is what I am attempting to do now:
The variable ...
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Automator Applescript - How to click the second checkbox
I recorded a workflow with Automator. And I got the following code:
on run {input, parameters}
-- Cliquez sur la case à cocher Selected features only.
delay 1.051853
set timeoutSeconds to ...
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Automator: move files to a dynamically created folder name from subfolder
I'm trying to move downloaded files to a new folder(Get name from subfolder files).
Example:
Parent Folder
├── 160x600-SubFolder1.1
│ ├── AnotherSubFolderEN-Test display_a98765bcd0e12345fg
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How to distribute Apple Automator Workflow to other users
I have a workflow that basically copies data from a specifically named USB (proof of concept at the moment) to a local folder. I would like to distribute this to other users since Automator seems to ...
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Reading WhatsApp app message via automator
Is it possible to read WhatsApp app message via automator?
I want to build an auto reply chat not using automator.
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How to read text from clipboard with waiting list?
I ask you, please, if you could tell me how to read text from the clipboard with a waiting list?
I want to select text (which copies itself to the clipboard with the Auto Copy extension of the Chrome ...
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Mass Convert Numbers to CSV/Excel (Watch me do)
We have a department that has been using a copy of an Apple Numbers file to input daily data into and save them daily. The numbers file is designed with multiple tables etc. - but they have the same ...
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Find video files across drives and pass to VLC
Over 8 or so external hard drives, I have ~40,000 video files, acquired over the course of 15 years of video production. On our screen in the lobby of our studio, we want all of these files to shuffle ...
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Help in trying to make an Automator script .jpg Contact Sheet
So I have a friend who makes these nice contact sheets,
by using FastStone Image Viewer 7.5 on a PC... I am on a Mac. Is there a way to take
.jpg files I have and run an automator script to make a ....
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How to run "node index" from a folder in terminal
I've managed to open the terminal in the right folder using AppleScript. but I can't figure out how to make it run node index.
How the line of code looks so far:
do shell script "open -a '...
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How can I stop Mac Automator using previous specification for my actions?
How can I stop Automator using previous specification for my actions?
I’m going crazy with Automator.
I have three folders : Deployed, Draft and Live.
In both folders there is a Public folder:
I want ...
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Disable TimeMachine with AppleScript and Automator on Monterey?
I was using an App created with Automator to quikly disable and enable Time Machine backups on my Mac with just one click. I was using a command that for some reason seems to doesn't work since I ...
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Keyboard shortcut to hide the extension of selected files in Finder
How can I set up a keyboard shortcut to hide the file extension of each selected file in Finder?
For example, if ⇧⌘E were such a shortcut, I could conveniently press ⌘A to select all files in the ...
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Batch Change Created Date using Automator and CSV File
I have 1,500-some Facebook photos all showing with the same date as they come from a data download.
Through the magic of regular expressions, I have generated a CSV file where each row has the ...
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Set Date Modified to oldest of selected files in Finder?
I'm trying to write a shell script to use in a Service I'm creating in Automator to change the "Date Modified" of all files selected in Finder to the date of the oldest modified file ...
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How to restart "pinch-to-zoom" feature via terminal?
Both my macs have been having this issue with the latest releases of MacOS:
Quick Look stops working randomly and Finder needs to be relaunched.
Pinch-to-zoom feature stops working with the trackpad (...
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Create a shortcut for opening file paths
in my office we're using Dropbox as our file server and we're sending a lot of file paths all the time. I'm looking for a way to speed this up.
I know how to change the shortcut cmd + option + c so ...
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Duplicate entry in Music database
Sometimes I find that an album shows two copies of the same song. All the metadata is the same, and they actually both point to the same file. (Not to a "file.mp3" and a separate "...
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Create an Automator action to insert a PDF table in Excel using data from picture
I'd like some help to create an Automator workflow to carry out the following please:
Select a PDF file containing a table of data
Convert the PDF file to an image
Open Microsoft Excel and import the ...
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Is it possible to toggle app visibility via an app or automation?
I'm trying to figure out a way to toggle the visibility of any app, regardless of the active desktop space, similar to how the app Slidepad works, if possible. Slidepad is limited to being a browser, ...
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The action “Find Finder Items” encountered an error: “Unable to search with Spotlight.”
EDIT: Ok I give up using Automator actions, probably it has something to do with my external drive being ExFat not indexed or something. If anyone has an AppleScript code or whatever workaround to ...
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Using Automator to create new folder and copy
I've dug around trying to find a solution that does the following, but haven't had much luck:
So far what I've been able to make work is to have finder select specific files in my documents folder and ...
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Automator questions - Copying files to new location [duplicate]
So I have some questions about the Automator.
I'm doing a fairly simple task with it and that's why it boggles my mind that it doesn't work. Always brings me the same info
"The action "...
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How can I trigger a mac daemon on an event other than scheduling a time interval?
I have made a few Mac daemons in the past. They either run at launch or run at a specific time interval, for example, once every hour.
I would like to know if it's possible to run a program on an ...
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Help with simple Automator script
Id like to be able to select files(s) from the desktop and be able to choose from the quick menu which sub-folder to move them to. I have this now
But it only gets me Modeling and I want the ability ...
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Automator on a SMB server
Trying to have Automator perform tasks on a smb:// mounted volume. Currently it can make a "New Folder" but is unable to make use of "Find Finder Items" as this yields no results. ...
