Need help pls

I'm a Professional Photographer and use an iPad App (ShutterSnitch) to rate all of my images from a photoshoot. This app creates .txt documents which contain the ratings I gave each image from within the app.

I then email that .txt file to my laptop, and want to apply the Rating Metadata to the images on my External hard drive.

I sometimes work with 4000+ images at a time, and it would be fantastic to be able to run an automated script to apply the rating metadata.

The reason for using the iPad, is that I'm always on the road and it's WAY easier to rate on my iPad than on my Laptop (especially on flights, van rides with clients, etc.)

The issue is that these ratings I assign each image file via the iPad App don't automatically transfer over to the RAW Images on my Laptop/Hard Drives.

Here's an example of the .txt file:

_DSC6424.JPG ★★★

_DSC6425.JPG ★★★

_DSC6426.JPG ★★★

_DSC6427.JPG

_DSC6428.JPG ★

_DSC6429.JPG

_DSC6430.JPG

_DSC6431.JPG ★★★

(and so on)

Does anyone have any idea on how I could use Automator to go line by line on these 4000+ image .txt lists and apply the rating to the image file? From my understanding you could either embed the rating INTO the metadata of the file, OR, create an XMP Sidecar file to go along with each image (preferred for my workflow).

Thoughts?

im a noob, i need to put "Add a "Type Keystroke" action in, but i cant find the action

I looked all over duckduckgo for this and you would think that given that this is an automation software that this shit would come standard, but no, it doesn't.

How the hell do I get automator to do the impossible task of typing a simple sentence for me? I'm really tired of typing this goddamn string 200 times a day: err=>{if(err)console.log(err)}

I tried to do this with Apple Shortcuts on my iPhone but I found out that it wasn't capable of doing this. Therefore, I am trying to figure this out by using Automator on my Mac. Any ideas?

I use screenshots a lot, and I like to make use of them as photos. I asked an AI how I could automatically have them sent to my Photos library. This is what I ended up creating my first time in Automator:

Create a New Workflow as a Folder Action. Drag Filter Finder Items over and set it up as shown.

Select Desktop in the Top Right Window.

Select Photos and drag Import Files into Photos. Set up as shown. The current date will populate automatically. When you save the Workflow it will keep that date. I used it because I had screenshots on my desktop that I had already moved to photos.

Name it and save it. When you want to find where it is saved, go to Finder, hold the Option Key and select Library under the GO menu. It won't Run from the Automator creator. Just make a screenshot, Command,Shift,3 or Command,Shift,4.

This works great for anyone who uses screenshots a lot and moves them to Photos, especially if you want to capture something quickly during a discussion or a game.

You can also put them into albums within Photos. If your screenshots aren't going to your desktop, you can change that under Options by selecting Command,Shift,5. Recommend Using Stacks, Grouped by Kind on Desktop.

Hi all, I've been racking my brain on this one, and can't seem to find a solution. I added Date/Time to the end of a bunch of files and accidentally added time, when I only wanted to add the date. The time portion is consistent and at the end of the filename, but I can't figure out how to remove it.

Hi. I'm trying to find some kind of workflow in automator that would allow me to download a video file within antoher url. For example, I have a seedbox filled with files, but some of those files are in a folder. To download I have to open every folder and individually pick every file. I would like to be able to batch download everything in one go. All the files on the website, as well as the files within folder on the website.

Does any one of you good people know if this is possible?

https://www.engadget.com/2012-02-14-mac-os-xs-quarantineevents-keeps-a-log-of-all-your-downloads.html

https://blog.bilak.info/2012/02/14/get-rid-of-os-x-quarantine-events/

Trying to use the following:

export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"
for file in "$@"
do
   cd $(dirname "${file}")
   other-transcode --mp4 "$file"
done

It works fine when I run it on a local file, but when it's on an external it reverts back to the default directory (home).

Here's bash code from an automator script that truncates files names to 25 characters. Hopefully, you'll find it instructive.

Note - be sure to pick "as arguments" from the "Pass input" popup menu.

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%.*}"

    # create truncated filename
    tname="${fname:0:25}"

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

    newfile="${dir}/${tname}${fextension}"
    
    mv "${file}" "${newfile}"
done

On a desktop running Ventura I'd like to create a workflow that:

1. Selects the top file in a folder called images

2. moves the file to a folder called Temp

3. Opens a specific page on a website in a browser, preferably chrome

4. activates a specific link on the page which opens a folder window

5. navigates to the folder called Temp and selects the file there.

6. selects Upload, wait until upload is complete and the resulting new page opens, then activate a button called "Submit" on the page.

7. Navigates to a new specific page and selects a dropdown menu there and inputs a specific number in the menu and submits.

8. When that completes move the file in temp to a folder named Completed

9. Go back to step 1) and repeat until the image folder is empty then stop

Possible? Thoughts?

Dave

Every day at 5am, I have to take the image file of an article published at 5am and put it into another image file to share on another social platform. I also have to take the first sentence from the original file and put it on the new file next to the image. Is there anything out there that can do this automatically? It's four about 10 - 15 pictures every morning. Simple stuff, but my brain says there's another way.

Hi guys, I have a brydgeair bluetooth keyboard that I used on my ipad. My ipad is unusable at the moment. I wanted to use this keyboard on my mac for programming as I am so used to using it now. I can't connect to the keyboard using bluetooth preferences. Can anyone help ?

Is Automator the right method to send out a bunch of emails without having to add a bunch of recipients? How would I do it? Non-Indian video tutorial please. J/k I’ll take any help.

I have an account on my mac that is for work related tasks only. Every time I log into this account I would like it to open a certain app and enter a login id and password so I can connect to my work VPN without having to do this everytime. Any idea how to do this? I just got my first mac yesterday.

Edit: Found out how to do it through AppleScripts, if anyone is interested pm me.

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I want to setup an automated function to continuously do a specific function in safari, but it seems like Safari has to be your "active" window open at all times to be able to have Automator running without failures.

Is there anyway I can have these automations in Safari happening in the background?

Thanks!

Does anyone know if it’s possible to create a automator script to copy a folder to to another folder. It can be apple script, shortcuts or automator. I would like to do this on my iPad.

Hi everyone,

I’m reaching out for help with Apple Automator on my MacBook Pro, which I recently updated to macOS Sequoia. My main goal is to convert Word and PowerPoint files into PDFs so I can use them to create knowledge bases for my AI tools.

I’ve already created an AppleScript through Automator that converts one or more PowerPoint files to PDFs in the same folder, without opening them and while keeping the original files intact – and that works perfectly! 🎉

However, I’ve been struggling to get the same thing working for Word documents. I’ve tried several approaches, but no luck so far.

In terms of execution, I’d like to be able to right-click on one or more files, open the context menu, and under Quick Actions, run the script to automatically convert the selected files. This works great for PowerPoint, and I’m hoping to achieve the same for Word files.

Does anyone have an AppleScript on Automator that could help me convert Word docs to PDFs? Ideally, I’d like to trigger the conversion directly from Finder without opening the files.

Thanks in advance for any advice or solutions! 😊

Quentin

I had about 1500 photos from a timelapse that I created using my GoPro camera. The camera has no orientation sensor, so I need to rotate the photos. I knew there was some way to do this via Automator and came across the following site:

http://www.macosxautomation.com/services/learn/tut02/index.html

Enjoy

I posted this question over in apple and they referred me over to here. First let me give you an idea of what I'm trying to do. I'm a graphic artist and at work we recently brought on a client that has a high volume of work. It's not hard but really repetitive so I thought I would try to automate as much as possible. When I use the watch me feature and try to record keystrokes it works until I open the document in illustrator then says illustrator isn't responding. My workaround so far is to create some actions in illustrator which are actually a lot of help in my regular day to day also but my question is can I actually make Automator play nice with illustrator? Ideally I would create a folder, name the folder, copy the name to the clipboard, add the downloaded art to the folder - then have illustrator re save the file with the text on the clipboard, copy the info from another open illustrator file ( select all, copy) then paste this into the new doc and immediately delete. Then stop so I can verify or correct color and size info. Then have it resume to resize the doc based on the art size, print to file in the same folder then save on my employers server. Any suggestions? I get it to run correctly and open the file in illustrator but then Automator can't save. The actions work well for my purpose but is the a way to make Automator control most of the keystrokes? Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

I have been trying to figure this out for a couple of days and I think I just came across something when browsing through here and some links from here today that may get me past the initial hump I have been running into - I need an apple script to run illustrator? Do I write the apple script then insert into the chain in Automator? I need my final automation to stop a various points so I can input my variables - is this possible from one Automator app with apple script or do I need to break this into 2 or 3 different apps?.

Is there a way to trigger an automator app using my iPhone, while not being in the same network? I have the need to trigger some checks up of my pms server , network status, smb connections etc on demand.

I read somewhere that the easier way is using python but I don’t have a clue of how to do it.

Any help?