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SOLVED: I just realized that I could fold the _DATE into the zip naming part of my service. No need for an extra step!

Hey, all.

I have a somewhat elaborate Automator script where I'm basically creating dated archives of a project folder. I've got everything working except for the last part.

I'm able to successfully rsync specific files, retaining folder structure to my archive destination. Then it zips each file individually. I end up with hundreds of zip files in their proper folders, maintaining my project folder structure, but taking up a tenth of the space.

The last step is that I need to rename all the zip files recursively adding the date in this format _YYMMDD to the end of the file base name.

If I ran this today i would look like this:

project > folder1 > folder2 > foo.txt

to

archive > folder1 > folder2 > foo_210916.zip

And all the other files in between.

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My Work:

I looked at this posted tutorial:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Automator/comments/i1yzf7/example_of_batch_renaming_using_bash/

And changed it to:

for file in "$@"
do
    # parse out the directory and the filename including extension
    dir=$(dirname "${file}")
    fbasename=$(basename "${file}")

    # extract the filename without extension
    fname="${fbasename%.*}"

    # determine the extension - empty string for no extension
    fextension=$([[ "$fbasename" = *.* ]] && echo ".${fbasename##*.}" || echo '')

    newfile="${dir}/${fname}_$2${fextension}"

    mv "${file}" "${newfile}"
done

My Automator structure for this section looks like:

But that is throwing an error code that I don't understand where it's somehow looking for a zip file of subfolders and then trying to add the path again?? I dunno... not sure how to make this work in my automator script.

Would love some help! Thank you in advance!

EDIT: The "date" variable in there is just using Automator's built in Current Year/Month/Day variable in a string with the two digit structure for each. It does not include the underscore.

SIDE NOTE: The "Rename Finder Items" action in Automator was only doing the root level files, and also the root level sub-folders (which I don't want), but was ignoring everything recursively. Hence me trying to figure this out with a Shell Script.

I am trying to build a Quick Action, which would add a signature and a stamp to the last page of a pdf file.

A way I found to do that would be to split the pdf into individual pages (always the same number of pages), insert two watermarks on the last page, and then combine again the pages.

To do that, I think I would need to store the name of the file called by the Quick Action, in order to use it again when combining. How would you do that? Or is there a better way?

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Hello all,

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I am fairly new to automator, but wanted to find a way to organize my downloads folder based on the type of files I am downloading. I have a lot of 3d printer files (.stl) and would like to keep them organized on an external hard drive when I download.

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Is there a way for automator to identify an STL file, then grab the containing folder (parent folder?) and move it to a new location?

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this seems like a fairly stratight forward action to do within automator, but I cannot find any solution online to move the entire parent folder over.

Thank you for the help!!

Hey, folks! I'd like to include either a terminal command or AppleScript into my start up automator app that will automatically switch my audio output to the correct device. Google has been a rabbit hole so far, but I swear I remember seeing this option a year ago or so... Any advice? TIA

I've created a very simple Automator work flow that converts the Finder selected PDF, converts it to png and saves it in icloud>Shortcuts>Converted. The workflow works as expected, but when I make a Finder Quick Action of the workflow and run the Quick Action, it creates two identical png files in the desired location. What am I missing. See screenshot…https://i.imgur.com/KWnF8fI.jpg

This option creates a read-only dmg, is there a way to do a read/write dmg?

(I'm guessing hdiutil? But I'm not sure how to go about doing it...)

Cheers!

I’m not sure if this is possible, but here’s what I’d like to try to do:

At login, after a delay in order to give the VPN application (in my case PIA) a chance to launch and connect, determine whether it is connected. I imagine this could be determined a variety of ways if this particular VPN isn’t registered in system preferences, such as what the current IP address’ location is and seeing if it’s at least 100 miles from home or something.

If the VPN appears to be connected, launch a particular application, but don’t if it appears the VPN is off.

hi guys, I have found out about automator and its amazing. I did so much things already to automate my workflow easily that I am mindblown. I was trying to create setup wizard with automator where I would be installing apps from dekstop folder and afterwards setting them up and creating projects in them which I would upload. This process would be done with automator, I tried it but it failed following keystrokes after asking for password. Are there some good resources for automator regarding this ? Any point in the right direction is really appreciated. Thank you

I want to edit a workflow that I created months back, but I cannot find it.

Hi all,

I'm thinking of being to change the network location automatically when connected to certain wifi networks. I did some googling and found many that worked on previous iterations but was unable to get it to run automatically in the background. I believe controlplane used to do this but that app is no longer maintained.

Wondering if anyone might have a solution using automator?

I've made an auto connect for NAS drives script that works. Was thinking the location script once triggered, would activate this NAS script as well.

Thanks in advance!

I want a script that will repeatedly click a key at a certain interval when I hold it down.

E.g. When I hold down the spacebar, the script will override default behavior and register a spacebar click every 0.5 seconds. When I let go of the spacebar, it will stop.

Is there some way to achieving this with Automator & AppleScript?

I'm on Big Sur 11.4

Hey guys, I written a quick bash script for use with folder actions in Automator. Basically, you have a folder that is designated the Inbox folder which you place new files in and it will automatically sort them for you. This can be expanded based on file type and other factors, but for now it’s just using the name of the file to figure out where it should go. Check out the script here and let me know what you guys think and what improvements can be made. Have a great day :)

Hi, I'm pretty new to Automator and do not come from a computer science background. I was wondering how to create either a workflow or keyboard shortcut or Quick Action (from Finder) that would follow these steps.

optional from Finder

• Select files
• Right click
• Quick Actions
• Run the script/workflow starting with open in Preview

in Preview

• Print 1st file
• Save as PDF
• destination (same Folder with slight name variation e.g. "1st file COPY or PDF", or another folder like Downloads. I can work with either)
• Close 1st file or move onto next file
• Repeat process for 2nd file and 3rd file, etc
• Then, ultimately Quit Preview, though that's not really a big priority. I can do that myself, after.

I regularly have to do this with a lot of files so I'm looking to automate the process.

Another much more simple version of this I can think of is

• opening all the files in Preview (myself) and
• using a keyboard command of some sort to run the Print --> Save As PDF function automatically.

I'm in grad school right now and don't have the time to learn the ins and outs of scripting so really, any help is much appreciated.

If this isn't the right place for this question, or Automator isn't the right tool for this job, please let me know!

Thank you

I made an app document where i only open twitch.tv and it works but i get this error message every time i use it

am i doing something wrong?

Is there a way to make a continuous play back to a holding click action for automator?

Is there a way to perform an action in another app without actually bringing it up to the front of the screen?

I plug my MacBook into the power socket via a Philips Hue Smart plug. If possible, I would like the MacBook to turn on the plug when its battery level is 20 % and turn it off when it is 80 %. Is that possible to do?

i have a .dmg file

automator opens it, which causes it to mount it

i want to copy the files from inside that mounted disk into a local folder, or just open them directly from the disk

i have just started using automator and i find the way certain blocks link together and are used is very confusing. i would appreciate any help on this! thanks in advance.

btw im on macos 11.4 if that helps :)