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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1903802" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>Build yourself an Automator Workflow. When you open Automator, it will initially ask for the location of an existing workflow. Instead, click on <em>New Document</em> at the bottom. Next, select <em>Quick Action</em>. On the right hand side, you'll see some parameters. Change as follows:</p><p></p><p></p><p>You can set <em>Image</em> and <em>Color</em> to your liking.</p><p></p><p>Next, from the left hand side, look for <em>Move Finder Items</em>, or <em>Copy Finder Items</em> if you don't want to simply move. Double-click to add it to the workflow on the right.</p><p></p><p>In the action, you'll see a <em>to</em> destination, Set a folder of your choice. I suggest putting a frequent destination, but if you want to always be asked where to move your files to, there's an additional setting to give you that prompt.</p><p></p><p>To always get a prompt for where to move the files to, click on <em>Options</em> and check <em>Show this action...</em>.</p><p></p><p>Once done, save it with a name that makes sense to you. You can now find this action when you right-click on anything in Finder under Quick Actions. Super easy. See screen cap of my example below.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]35642[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p>If you want to get REALLY fancy, you can assign a custom keyboard shortcut to activate this workflow so you don't even have to mess with using the mouse to find it. Crazy easy, done using the App Shortcuts feature in the Keyboard System Preferences. I can walk you through that if you desire.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1903802, member: 38864"] Build yourself an Automator Workflow. When you open Automator, it will initially ask for the location of an existing workflow. Instead, click on [I]New Document[/I] at the bottom. Next, select [I]Quick Action[/I]. On the right hand side, you'll see some parameters. Change as follows: You can set [I]Image[/I] and [I]Color[/I] to your liking. Next, from the left hand side, look for [I]Move Finder Items[/I], or [I]Copy Finder Items[/I] if you don't want to simply move. Double-click to add it to the workflow on the right. In the action, you'll see a [I]to[/I] destination, Set a folder of your choice. I suggest putting a frequent destination, but if you want to always be asked where to move your files to, there's an additional setting to give you that prompt. To always get a prompt for where to move the files to, click on [I]Options[/I] and check [I]Show this action...[/I]. Once done, save it with a name that makes sense to you. You can now find this action when you right-click on anything in Finder under Quick Actions. Super easy. See screen cap of my example below. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot.png"]35642[/ATTACH] If you want to get REALLY fancy, you can assign a custom keyboard shortcut to activate this workflow so you don't even have to mess with using the mouse to find it. Crazy easy, done using the App Shortcuts feature in the Keyboard System Preferences. I can walk you through that if you desire. [/QUOTE]
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