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nonickfx

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Sep 24, 2018
2
0
Hi everyone,

I am trying to write an automator script to do the following:
  1. I select a file in Finder
  2. Run the script (e.g. using a shortcut)
  3. The script then asks me to specify a folder on my Mac, which I specify by just typing the first few letters of its name (similar to how it works in spotlight).
  4. Once the right folder shows up, I click enter
  5. The script moves whichever file(s) I selected to that location
Is there any way to achieve this? I was able to configure something similar where I have to select the folder by navigating to it. This is however very slow. That's why I'd like to be able to just type the first few letters of the folder's name and hit enter.

Thanks!
 

superscape

macrumors 6502a
Feb 12, 2008
937
223
East Riding of Yorkshire, UK
Hi,

I don't think Automator will let you do out of the box. There's a chance someone, somewhere may have developed a third party Automator Action to do it, but I wouldn't be optimistic.

You can, of course, create your own actions in Xcode but that's a pretty steep learning curve...
 
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