Automator

Hello, it's long ago since I last have made a backup of my system. What primarily holds me back is that I keep pretending that I just do not have the time. Then I fell over an article which describes how to backup recently changed data using the automator: - create smart folder that looks for new data - "Get smart folder contents" - "copy finder items": copy the...

I have tried setting up an Automator workflow to cut out having to tediously send each one individually, but it appears that this isn't possible. ...

Hey there, I've set up a 3-step Automator workflow that generates a TextEdit document with the day's iCal events as follows: 1. Get specified iCal items (from main calendar) 2. Event Summary (for today) 3. New TextEdit Document. It works fine with one-off events but seems to ignore recurrent events that are on the same calendar as one-off events.

Copying the files to a single USB memory stick takes about 20 seconds. Copying the files with an automator action is taking more than 10 minutes! ...

Copying the files to a single USB memory stick takes about 20 seconds. Copying the files with an automator action is taking more than 10 minutes! ...

Does anyone know if I can set up an automator action to look up the email address in filemaker, then look up and attach the related pdf, and send the email out? ...

and sometimes I need to create emails for mass sending but with individual greetings such as "Dear Tom" instead of the usual "Dear Friends" or "Dear Recipient". Automator by right should allow me to do that. ...

Is there an automator script to check if an external USB drive is connected? ...

Any way that Automator can tell that machine to do it? ...

Hi there. I'm just now discovering the Automator. Looks handy. Yet, when I want to tell it to start playing a playlist in iTunes, how do I choose which playlist it plays? I tried running the task but it didn't do anything. Anyone know how do work this thing? Thanks. :)