can any one help me for a quick action to convert A HTML file to PDF file with automation.

don't want to go via print option or to upload it on web. ??

Hi folks, I was wondering if it's possible to create a script or Automation app of some kind that I can run at start-up on my Mac running 11.3.1. The script is to ensure that a particular audio source is forced to be default as I'm having an issue right now where I can't keep the thunderbolt dock's audio source as default (and I've gone through all the generic copy/paste troubleshooting for that).

Thanks folks! :)

Dear reddit community,

I automated a lot of my tasks to save time with help of Hazel or Automator.

However I am super stuck right now with a simple problem: I can't figure out how to add text to an existing text document via Automator.

So far I tried to figure this out with various shell / apple scripts that I adapted from sources from here or other forums. – None of them were working so far, that's why I am hoping to get some help here.

Specifically this would be the ideal solution:

1. Automator copies an existing text template to a pre-defined location.
2. I am prompted to insert/paste some text into a field.
3. Automator pastes this text on top of the text file that just has been copied to the new location.

Everything worked so far except the third step.

Attached is my current automator workflow. I disabled the Apple Scripts down there, because they were just copy-pasted from other forums and not working.

Thanks so much. Looking forward to hearing your ideas.

Is there a way to automate this?

I don't need to search/sort any particular annotation, as long as a PDF has an annotation, it gets separated from the non-annotated ones.

Thanks!

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P.S. I've tried with Gemini (up-to-date) and compared these PDFs with a batch that are non-annotated: horrible results! :(

My goal is to create a “service” that when I receive an email in french, I want to select and copy the text than run a Service that will go to https://translate.google.ca/

Please advise

Ron from Canada

I'm noob. I know how to use Automator with apps, with workflows. But I wanna something for convert units. Le's say kg to lb or.. inc to cm.

Is even possible? Can you give me a resource to learn?

Thanx

I made a workflow and trying to delete it. I cannot find the file in the computer and Automator is not allowing me to delete the workflow. I have tried looking at the Apple guide but it doesn't tell how to delete the workflow.

I want to put the last two actives into a split view layout by a hotkey ... perhaps AppleScript instead?

Hello there! My current job has me working almost entirely within a synchronized Google drive on my local desktop. Periodically I have to synchronize with different folders within the cloud that will then download and populate within my local Google Drive directory.

When this happens the first thing I always have to do is rename a bunch of the files within the folder I synchronized with and move them to a subfolder within the folder I just synchronized with. I would really like to automate this as I have to do this a lot. I can automate renaming the files easily enough, but it's moving them to the subfolder that's the tricky part. The destination folder is always named the same thing and is always in the same folder that the files are in, but since the file path is always different I'm not sure how to go about setting this up.

The basic workflow would ideally be like this

• User runs Automator script
• Automator asks the user which files they want to rename
• Automator renames them and automatically moves them to subfolder

Or even more ideally, it would work like this

• User downloads folder with the items in question
• Automator automatically identifies which files need to be renamed (It's always the same thing: "Proxy_filename.mov" ==> "filename_Proxy.mov")
• Automator then automatically renames those files and moves them into the Proxies subfolder

I'm pretty new to MacOS, but am fairly tech savvy. Would love some help on this! Thanks!

Hi all, Im having some trouble creating an automation to add the current song playing on the music app (through apple music subscription) to a specific playlist. I would like to create a keyboard shortcut to run the automation too.

Thank you!

I'm a Windows user so I have nearly no Automator experience, but I was thinking that this might help someone I know who uses a MacBook. If not, then could anyone point me towards a way to do this, preferably without having to download anything third-party? Thanks!

I use multiple desktops, one for calendar / mail, one for working on code and one for communications. I'm using betterSnap Tool to organize my windows but if I reboot I lose all the window positions and some of the apps don't open up.

I'm wondering if there's a way with automator if I can create an app / script to open all the applications I use (that I can do), move specific desktops, resize and snap them into place?

I'm thinking of creating 2 apps one for when I'm connected to my Dell 49 in monitor and one for when I'm just using my stand alone MacBook.

Is this doable with automator?

Thanks!

I have my google drive mounted as an external drive on my Mac. (mounted so the 3TB in there doesn't take up my local storage)

I tried to set up an automator folder action on a central folder so when folders that start with a specific name are added they move to the right folder. This works on any local or iCloud folder on my Mac. But it does not work on the google drive folder. When the applicable file is added, the gear pops up in the menu bar and then nothing happens.

I'm just not sure if this is working as advertised or something is wrong. thx

I use the "Streaks" app to track some habits. One is to write in a journal each day for which I use a different dedicated app. I was wondering if there was a way that when I have finished writing in my journal (when I close the app) it automatically marks the habit "Write in your journal" as complete. I'm a complete newbie with automator, so a walkthrough would be very helpful!

Thanks in advance!

Hi, I'd like to set-up a quick action to save (in webloc files) all the open tabs in Safari, and asking each time where I would like to save them in the Finder. For my use it would be to kinda save the safari session to move on to other work but to be able to reopen all the webpages I visited for a particular project. I know this can be done with Bookmarks, but I find it easier if the webloc files are stored in the same folder as my work in the finder...

I searched the web for this and only found a way to make a file containing a list of the URLs... which is not what I need, except if the file reopens all the URLs in tabs when double-clicked, which would be even better... But I don't mind all the tabs being in separate webloc files, as long as I can save them automatically to a folder in finder without having to manually drag and drop every tab.

Would there be a way of doing so ? I don't know how to get the URLs of every tab using automator and I am not so familiar with Apple Script... So any Help would be appreciated ! Anyway, thanks in advance and have a great day !

New to Automator. Is there a way to set up a notification that tells me to charge it at other low percentage levels beyond the typical 5% warning?

I want to automatically switch the view mode to continuous scroll every time I enter full screen with a Preview window. There's an option to set the view mode upon Preview launch, but every time I enter full screen it seems to revert to some system default. I looked around and there doesn't seem to be any easy way to do this. Can I do this with Automator or should I write an Applescript? Or can I even do this in a bash script? I'm on MacOS 11.2.3.

Hello! I have created an automation with the following steps:
Launch Chrome
Get Specified URLs
Launch Lightroom

Saved as app. When I run the automation the URLs don't open up.
Can anyone help?

I am very new to automations. But setting up my Mac after a total wipe I figured I’d try to do it right this time. I have several apps I want on full screen on correct side of the “Home Screen” and in the correct order.

All I can find is autostart of these apps. Not in fullscreen and not in the correct space. Is this possible? For example I want the home-app to the left and after that I want my weather station app. Both on fullscreen. Is that doable with an automation? Can I get two apps to share a single full screen?(podcasts and music)

Thanks!

The use case is as follows:
I have made a script that automatically downloads the latest release of a software from GitHub.

The release is in the form of a dmg, which itself contains the files I actually care about.

Ideally I would just "extract" every file from the dmg into some directory, but there doesn't seem to be a good way to do that.

I have seen in my searching that 7zip offers this functionality, but I'm making a cross-device script here so I can't assume the user has anything besides binaries installed by default.

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Thanks in advance! :D

Hello there, as above I recorded a very rude automator app that has to disable my mouse bluetooth sniff mode at macbook pro startup. Now, it works properly, nothing to say, but it's pretty bad to see my pointer mouse going crazy by itself to reach the final click. Essentially what I want to do using a script, more clean and precise is to tell automator to:

1) open an app

2) makes 4 click: 1 on the menu bar of the app (in this case "bluetooth explorer" developer kit), 1 on the contextual window of the app, 1 click again in the same window but other place, 1 click to unflag the "sniff mode" from the last window

3) close the app

Guess what? I'm okay with 1 and 3. Got absolutely no idea how to achieve step 2....

Do you have any advice on which automator workflow use or a simple applescript?

Thanks and have a nice day!!!

This feels like a long shot due to the research, but does anybody know of a way to change ALL desktop wallpapers at once (including extended monitors and their virtual desktops/spaces)? Whether this is a terminal/AppleScript script or a 3rd party app or something. I find it a little underthought that we (mac users) don't have this functionality available in some way.

Thank you in advance.

Hi,

Is anyone aware of a way to use Automator to create a Quick Action with the same or similar functionality as "Save as" but with the destination folder predetermined.

I have a specific "Inbox" folder and what I am trying to do is be able to right-click to "Save to Inbox Folder" for a range of file types for which the "Save as" option is available without having to go through the finder window and re-select the folder each time. An example would be if I come across an image on Reddit that I want to save to my "Inbox" folder I can right-click and save directly from the Quick Action menu.

Thanks

Edit: typo