Finder Automator Plug-ins

drbrain | Thu, 30 Mar 2006 22:41:46 GMT

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Apple’s Automator allows you to perform drag and drop scripting for OS X applications. So far I’ve only written two Automator workflows, one that loads selected photos into iPhoto I call “Import Photos” and one script that attaches selected files to a new email I call “Mail Selection”.

For the Import Photos workflow grab the “Get Selected Finder Items” action then drop the “Import Photos into iPhoto” action below it. I add my photos to Library. Then select Save As Plug-in from the File menu and it will show up in the Automator item of Finder’s context menu.

The attach as email workflow is practically identical, it consists of “Get Selected Finder Items” followed by “New Mail Message”. Selecting “Mail Selection” from Finder gives me a new mail message with whatever items I had selected attached.

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Speaking of the Mail Selection automator workflow, I actually created the exact same workflow. It kind of dumfounded me that Apple didn’t think to put an action like that in by default.

Actually they probably intentionally left it out to get people to try automator. Perhaps I’m not creative enough but I haven’t found a great number of uses for it.

Lee Jensen said about 2 hours later

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