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tommy060289

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Jun 20, 2011
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Hey Everyone, I can remember when automator was introduced it was touted as a big feature but Ive never really used it and having a quick scout over it looks like it requires a bit of a learning so I just have a question as to what it can actually do.

I know it can do things like automatically rename albums and things like that but heres what Id like to do.

I have an iMac as a main computer and we also have a couple of laptops. I also have a Western Digital MyBook World NAS that I use with time machine currently but it is also possible to use this as a iTunes media server.

So what im thinking of doing is copying my music library onto the NAS so that other computers can access it when the iMac is off. I know I could just drag and drop it in and update it periodically but is there anyway I could set the automator to do it say once a week or something so that it would check for any differences between the two folders and update the NAS accordingly?

I had a quick play and there seem some options for copying files but im just having a bit of trouble getting it working so any assistance would be much appreciated:D
 
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