Welcome to Part I of this mini AppleScript feature on creating useful folder actions. We'll have more posts on this topic coming up, but for now, let's introduce what a folder action is. Have you ever ...

OS X’s Folder Actions let you attach AppleScripts to specific folders so actions are performed automatically as soon as you add items to the folders. Once you know the basics of how Folder Actions ...

One of the great things about OS X is that it’s like the real world. You store your files in folders; when you don’t want something, you put it in the Trash. But on your Mac, a folder isn’t really ...

Windows: On OS X, Folder Actions are a powerful way to automate your folders. Folder Actions for Windows brings those easy-to-use tools to the PC world. There are a variety of functions that Folder ...

As a Windows 11 user, there might be times when you want to execute a Command Prompt action directly in a specific folder, ...

Android (4.0+): We've discussed some great app switchers in the past, but Action Launcher Pro takes the idea of launching apps, checking widgets, and managing folders with gestures to a whole new, ...

Illustrator Actions are recordings of steps that are used to complete tasks. Illustrator actions can be downloaded or recorded for use or to share. Illustrator Actions makes it easy to automate any ...

2) The folder action should "Import Images" to Aperture 3 (I have an existing project in my lone Aperture library named "Automatically-Imported" to catch the new images). Automator makes selection of ...

In the last AppleScript post, I mentioned some of the useful ways to create Folder Actions, and showed you how to use one of the built-in scripts to perform a pretty useful action. In this AppleScript ...