Apple OSX Automator 1414 Responses

Last post: 4 years, 8 months ago | Thread started: Sep 22, 08, 11:43 a.m.

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• jayoh

  Just found this really useful looking application in OSX called Automator which allows you to record any process with your Mac and automate it.

  I have no idea what I could use it for - anyone here ever use it?

  Sep 22, 08, 11:43 a.m. – Permalink

• Point5

  http://www.apple.com/downloads/m…
  http://automatorworld.com/

  

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  Dog-earSep 22, 08, 11:46 a.m. – Permalink

• ninjasavant

  I want to but I can never get it to work.

  

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  Dog-earSep 22, 08, 11:46 a.m. – Permalink

• designbot

  I've used it for batch resizing images before. I also tried to sort images by orientation with it, but I never got it working.

  Seems like it could be pretty cool, but I found it confusing.

  

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  Dog-earSep 22, 08, 11:47 a.m. – Permalink

• madirish

  welcome to 2002.... the water is warm- jump in.

  • guess i'm six years late to the party! just got a mac 9 months ago though– jayoh

  

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  Dog-earSep 22, 08, 11:47 a.m. – Permalink

• eb6

  very useful for renaming files sequentially.

  • graphicconverter is much better at this. (for any, not only graphic files)– invisiblechamber

  

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  Dog-earSep 22, 08, 11:51 a.m. – Permalink

• digdre

  never knew what it is good/usefull for..

  • BUT NOW I SEE– digdre1/3

    automating any repetitive task you do manually– acescence2/3

    oops, i'm slow– acescence3/3

  

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  Dog-earSep 22, 08, 12:29 p.m. – Permalink

• acescence

  if you can wrap your head around applescript, the possibilities are endless

  • Like fighting clients?– Anders

  

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  Dog-earSep 22, 08, 12:33 p.m. – Permalink

• urban10

  i've found adobe bridge (if you have it) is much easier for batch automation and file renaming tasks. tried the automator thing but never got it to work like i wanted.

  

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  Dog-earSep 22, 08, 12:36 p.m. – Permalink

• fourthgen

  I consider myself to be a pretty smart dude but I could never figure out automator

  • +1I agree I opened that mother a couple of times and closed it feeling dumb.– PIITB

  

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  Dog-earSep 22, 08, 12:38 p.m. – Permalink

• Marcelom

  hahahahaha

  

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  Dog-earSep 22, 08, 2:03 p.m. – Permalink

• modern

  You can use it to make a right click item in finder that lets you do search and replace in filenames, or make files sequentially named, or convert a load of psds to jpeg

  fucking awesome

  

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  Dog-earSep 23, 08, 7:04 a.m. – Permalink

• thebottlerocket

  on this note, I had, somwething ages ago that i think was written in apple script, which automatically created a folder with todays date in your 'downloads' directory. So anything downloaded through Safari (or any browser) that appeared in there would automatically go into the folder for the day.

  Anyway, know anything similar?

  • good idea– Gucci

  

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  Dog-earSep 23, 08, 7:24 a.m. – Permalink

• Sequencer

  Pretty good for backup...

  

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  Dog-earSep 23, 08, 7:45 a.m. – Permalink

• Chazolta

  I prefer Dan the Automator

  

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  Dog-earSep 23, 08, 10:28 a.m. – Permalink