Automator

While I'm waiting eagerly for Tiger to come out, I thought I'd start a thread for getting ideas on how Automator (hopefully) could be used. A few that I've already thought of: Getting a Grab screen capture directly as a jpeg, without having to bother with the tiff file. Sending screen captures directly via email, without having to bother with manually saving the...

Hi, I have *a lot* of image files with the filename format somename_ddmmyy_001 and am looking for a way to remove the first name up to or including the first underscore I've looked through Automator & A Better Finder Rename, no luck. Graphicconverter will allow me to remove a specific term, or a set number of characters, but both the name & number of characters are...

The only way this would be possible is it seashore has Automator workflows installed with their application. If not, then nothing is possible through the basic Automator. ...

From the limits seen inside OS X and Automator (was looking for a workflow that could do it), the only sort options are: date modified, date created, size, kind, version, comments and label. This seems like something that is not capable of being done.

I've installed a looping video in an art gallery using the best way I know how. As a login item, Automator app launches full-screen looping quicktime at startup. Start up and shut down are scheduled in Energy Saver. The problem I have is that often, when the computer starts up as scheduled and the video launches, the mouse arrow is sitting in the corner of the screen and...

Please apologize for asking a naive question here. I'm relatively new to Macs and I was gone crazy after seeing Automator and its capabilities. I just thought to ask if the following could be implemented. ...

Is there a way to get automator to run a workflow on files in successive folders within a given folder. ...

If you want to purge the iphoto library, I'm sure there is a way to do it in applications/automator http://www.macosxautomation.com/automator/index.html Otherwise it should be safe to delete them in finder if they are not showing in iphoto.

I think you can make Ical run a script in automator but I'm not sure how. ...

Applescript Automator Both are already on your Leopard system, or, you can install Xcode, which is avialable as a custom install from your OS X installer DVD.