Setting up a folder action in Sonoma

[thebart]

I wrote an AppleScript to mount an SMB share if it is not already mounted. It also tries 10x on failure with a delay in between. This part is working.

What I really want to do is to run this automatically when the share is disconnected for whatever reason. I thought I could use folder action for this.

My steps:

• open automator, create folder action
• for "Folder action receives files and folder added to .." select /Volumes as the folder to watch.
• select "Run applescript" from list of actions
• paste in my script, which is now wrapped with

on removing folder items from this_folder after losing these_items
...
end removing folder items from

Then I save it. It saves as a .workflow by default. It does not let me choose a folder so I don't know where it is saved and I can't find it in the finder.

In theory, this should watch /Volumes and when something is removed it should check and mount the smb share if necessary. But nothing seems to happen.

So I changed the watch folder to ~/Downloads and added in some display dialog ... debug print to see if the script is getting triggered at all when I add or remove files from ~/Downloads. But nothing happens. The script is not being triggered.

Anyone knows what I'm doing wrong?

thanks

 

[KALLT]

Folder actions are stored in your user library under ~/Library/Workflows/Applications/Folder Actions.

You can use the Folder Actions Setup application (look for it with Spotlight) to enable/disable your workflows and set the folder for which they should be triggered.

 

[thebart]

Ah, thanks.

It turns out it only triggers when items are added, not removed, which is not helpful in this case. I tried attaching to ~/Downloads with same result. Not sure if I'm doing something wrong or this is a bug with Sonoma or with my system.