Need help with Scripting for folder action

MBasile · Apr 2, 2008

Ok, I have a script set up to upload all the images I put in the folder to Flickr. However, the folder doesn't empty itself after uploading the images. How can I change the script to delete the images after uploading them?

The current script is attached

MBasile · Apr 2, 2008

need to change something else too:
When I drag images to the folder the script is associated with it moves the files to the folder, is there any way to make it copy rather than move?

Heres what I want over all:
-I drag images to the folder
-It copies files to the folder so they stay in their original location too
-It runs the upload to flicker automation/application
-It moves the copies to the trash

Brown Study · Apr 2, 2008

An ordinary ol' AppleScript ''tell'' script would follow the pathway and say: Delete every item of folder ''blahblah'' of folder ''blahblah'' of folder ''blahblah'' etc.
Then the files could be sent into the ether with the command:

empty trash

Sorry, but beyond very simple folder actions, I get lost. Your best bet would be macscripter.com, where there's tons of stuff. I don't think you can use it's search, though, without joining.

MBasile · Apr 3, 2008

Brown Study said:
An ordinary ol' AppleScript ''tell'' script would follow the pathway and say: Delete every item of folder ''blahblah'' of folder ''blahblah'' of folder ''blahblah'' etc.
Then the files could be sent into the ether with the command:

empty trash

Sorry, but beyond very simple folder actions, I get lost. Your best bet would be macscripter.com, where there's tons of stuff. I don't think you can use it's search, though, without joining.

thanks for the help, but a lot of this I guess is just over my head

MBasile · Apr 3, 2008

well this is what I get for trying to learn something new while sick

I don't know why I kept keeping it as a folder with folder actions, when the partial point of a folder is to store things, and I didn't want to store things in it. All I had to do was while in Automator was save it as an application instead of a folder action, and then place the app on the sidebar where I wanted the folder

Brown Study · Apr 3, 2008

That makes a lot of sense. I thought I was missing something.

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