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syff

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May 6, 2005
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Norway
I haven't used Automator much yet, mainly because I haven't found its features useful. But there's one task I do more than anything: adding music I've downloaded from the internet to iTunes.

I've created an Automator script that does the following:

1) Get folder contents
2) Add files to playlist

No problems so far, it does exactly what it's supposed to do.

However, since I let iTunes copy the music files to the iTunes folder there's no need to keep the old files. So I tried adding the following Automator task to the end of the workflow:

3) Move to trash

The problem is it doesn't move the original files to the trash - it deletes the already copied files that is now located in the iTunes folder.

Are there any solutions to this?

Also, I tried adding a keyboard shortcut to the workflow, with no success. I exported the script as a plugin module for finder, and tried adding a new keyboard shortcut with the same name as the finder plugin. No luck. Am I doing it wrong?
 
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