Getting automator to wait for an app to finish

Discussion in 'Mac Apps and Mac App Store' started by bigwig, Jul 13, 2010.

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  1. bigwig, Jul 13, 2010

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    Automator has a "Launch Application" action, but it doesn't wait for the app to finish. The "Open File" action doesn't wait either. When using a Loop action, this is terrible behavior. Is there any way to get Automator to wait for the app to finish before starting it up again?
     
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  2. deadwulfe, Jul 14, 2010

    deadwulfe macrumors 6502a

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    I'm not at my Mac right now, but I'm pretty sure there's a step you can insert after opening the app to 'wait n seconds' before going to the next step. I think that's how my automator executable is for mounting a disk image and then launching an app after the image is mounted.
     
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