Comments on: Folder Actions for OS X explained – with real-world examples

By: Derek Nugent

Derek Nugent — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:37:25 +0000

Fantastic! Many many thanks for sharing!

By: An Applescript to Move Screenshots From the Desktop — Ken Clark's Blog

An Applescript to Move Screenshots From the Desktop — Ken Clark's Blog — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:20:19 +0000

[...] with Mac OS X from my Desktop to a designated screenshots folder. Setting it up requires that you enable folder actions and then assign this script as a folder action to the Desktop [...]

By: Multimedia Design

Multimedia Design — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:28:45 +0000

I think you just invented the 30 hour day. This is going to give me so much free time – thanks!

By: Fero

Fero — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:25:10 +0000

Great script, especially the notify when new file placed in folder.

Can someone suggest a workaround for Leopard which doesn’t allow you to send a fax, unless you disable ‘Receive faxes on this computer’. I suppose the steps for sending a fax would require the steps;
- select file to be faxed
- when ‘Fax Pdf’ is selected, script should ‘deactivate receive fax on this computer’ and save settings and close
- fax should then send (hopefully)
- once fax has sent, then script should reinstate ‘receive fax on this computer’ setting.

THanks all
FJK

By: Juergen

Juergen — Sun, 17 May 2009 20:17:51 +0000

I would like to know what events may trigger a folder action. Unfortunately, I cannot find a reference manual, but it seems like that adding a file is the one and only event which can start a automator script.
My goal is to implement an action that fires if a folder is opened or closed from a remote host. In this case, iTunesFS should launch. If the connection is closed, the iTunesFS should get closed as well. Any suggestons?

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Automator to Convert Torrents with iSquint? - MacNN Forums — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:58:03 +0000

[...] can’t you have your torrent program move completed torrents to a folder then specify a folder action to happen when something gets [...]

By: Mariano

Mariano — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:08:43 +0000

Thanks for this tutorial.

By: Jason Beebe

Jason Beebe — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 07:09:38 +0000

Great tip. I will definitely give this a go on my iMac.

By: JoDitt

JoDitt — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 04:32:07 +0000

Thanks for your simple explanation of folder actions, and especially for the real world examples.

By: New Item Alert « MilkHub

New Item Alert « MilkHub — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:18:05 +0000

[...] simple Folder Action, adapted from one of the Apple stock scripts, which triggers a Growl message when an item is added [...]

By: slub

slub — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:51:41 +0000

Simple, easy and to the point. thank you thank you! I couldn’t find that information anywhere on apple’s site.

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Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:29:55 +0000

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By: frank

frank — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:49:51 +0000

Ok i give you thumbs up!

By: Emilio Marte

Emilio Marte — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:40:24 +0000

Please I would like to see someone tell me, how can I do so that when someone put a file in a folder anyone, I notice that this or that is activated if it is open.

Thanks in advanc

By: Emilio Marte

Emilio Marte — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:37:02 +0000

Saludos:

Por favor me gustaría que alguien me diga, cómo puedo hacer para que cuando alguien coloque un archivo en un folder cualquiera, que este me notifique o que se active si el mismo está abierto.

Gracias de antemano