Upon doing do so, this triggered the Automator Folder Action moving the files to the appropriate hierarchical folder structure as shown below: Photos % tree Starting without any subfolders in the Photos folder or files in the Photos to Sort folder, I dragged and dropped the following files into the Photos to Sort folder: To test the example shell script code, I created the Photos and Photos to Sort folders in my Home folder and assigned the later to the Folder Action in my Automator workflow. Thanks!įor this, I'd use an Automator Folder Action with Run Shell Script action, with settings as shown in the image further below, while replacing the default code in the Run Shell Script action with the following example shell script code: p="$HOME/Photos" I have no good way of explaining what I'm trying to do other than visually, so here goes. From what I see, how people are either doing these things in Applescript or other script languages(?), for the right person, I think/hope this is a simple ask.
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I have read through numerous, similar posts but none provide an apparent answer that I can use and/or figure out how to adapt to what I'm trying to do with my files and folder hierarchies.
I'm not a programmer and I do not do scripting but I can understand most things when there's an apparent logic to the layman.
Ideally, it should run every time a new file appears in the/a defined main folder but if that's not simple to do, I would be okay to have a droplet/app that I should either run manually or otherwise schedule to run. Wishing to optimize my photography workflow, I want to automate the moval of pictures and videos from (a) main folder into a set of folders' subfolders based on the start of the filename - all based on year and month, i.e.
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