Since a more than a week I tried to create a workflow for automatically unarchiving files but without success ! So I decided to ask for your help
Here’s the situation : in my work I often receive archived files (mainly .rar & .zip but also sometimes a few .dms files), those files are all stored in different folders and each time I have to go through all those folders and unarchive all that the file by file, what makes me lose a lot of my precious time!
So, I tried by myself to establish a workflow with Automator that will perfom all this automatically , without success until now because it never worked like it should have been the case!
This is what I would have like the workflow to do :
Do you think that it is possible to establish such a workflow?
If yes do you have some suggestions how to do it?
Many thanks in advance to everyone who will take te time to help me with it
Martel
Here’s the situation : in my work I often receive archived files (mainly .rar & .zip but also sometimes a few .dms files), those files are all stored in different folders and each time I have to go through all those folders and unarchive all that the file by file, what makes me lose a lot of my precious time!
So, I tried by myself to establish a workflow with Automator that will perfom all this automatically , without success until now because it never worked like it should have been the case!
This is what I would have like the workflow to do :
- ask the user to select manually all the folders that the workflow will have to deal with
- look in all those folders, and their sub-folders to see if they’re containing archives
- if this is not the case to go directly to the next folder to perform the same research
- if this is the case to undertake the unarchiving of all the presented files and to move the intial files (that are now unarchived) to the trash (but without deleting them)
- when the totality of the archives have been uncompressed the workflow should stop by itself
Do you think that it is possible to establish such a workflow?
If yes do you have some suggestions how to do it?
Many thanks in advance to everyone who will take te time to help me with it
Martel