I have a Quick Action which flattens a PDF via Applescript. The code works extremely well--I right click in finder and the PDF is flattened, annotations are burned in, no other applications are opened, and the action completes in less than 2 seconds. Here is the Applescript code: I have a Shortcut which completes several operations on already-flattened PDFs. Presently 1) I run my Quick Action by right-clicking a PDF in Finder in order to flatten it, and 2) then right-click that save PDF in Finder to run my Shortcut on that now-flattened PDF. Ideally I'd like to add the Applescript code which flattens the PDF to the beginning of my Shortcut for the sake of convenience, and because sometimes I run my Shortcut having forgotten to flatten the PDF first. However I'm finding that the Applescript code, when placed into a Run Applescript action in Shortcuts, gives this error message: The exact same code when placed into a Run Applescript action in Automator and then run as a Quick Action by right-clicking the PDF in Finder, does not give an error and works perfectly. Does anybody have an explanation (and possible solution) for why this is the case?

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After installing my notarized 3rd party app in a Tahoe VM, its embedded Automator actions can not be configured in Automator while defining a workflow: After adding the actions (enabling 3rd party extensions), their views / UI elements do not respond to any mouse event. When enabling „show this action when running“, the options can be changed during execution of the workflow. Needless to say: Adjusting these action settings in Automator was working for years, macOS 12 - 15 and before. Reported via Feedback Assistent (FB19015185). Can anybody confirm this issue with Automator actions?

Can someone please help me: I do not have the brain space (85yo) to figure out an Apple Script or Java Script app to do this simple task. I have spent a few hours each day, over several days, and have made zero progress on such an apparently simple task. I wish to create an Automator App for the macOS Safari browser that will schedule (via a Calendar Event) the download of the 48hr data behind the hourly Fuel Mix Plot Data from the AEMO Web Site, every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. Here is the link to the AEMO web site: AEMO, Energy Systems, Electricity, National Electricity Market (NEM), Data (NEM),Data Dashboard https://www.aemo.com.au/energy-systems/electricity/national-electricity-market-nem/data-nem/data-dashboard-nem The 48 hour hourly Fuel Mix data is found by selecting the "Fuel Mix" button (which by default will display the NEM Current Trend). The 48 hour trend is displayed by tapping on the small "Current" pulldown menu, and selecting "48 hrs". The 48hr Data is down loaded by selecting the small circular button just to the right of the pulldown menu. a) AEMO Web Site: https://www.aemo.com.au/energy-systems/electricity/national-electricity-market-nem/data-nem/data-dashboard-nem b) Main Menu, and underlying html, c) Fuel Mix menu, Pulldown list, DownLoad button, and underlying html, I am familiar with C++ and have built Xcode Apps, and used Excel Macros extensively in the past. Thank you. Robert.

Hi Here is my problem. I have a large number of portrait pictures in my adobe lightroom catalogue which I need to email to the subjects of the portraits. These peoples names and email addresses are stored in my pictures metadata and I am able to export the pictures with accompanying text or CSV files containing the names & addresses. What I want to do is export the pictures in bulk and automagically create and send individual emails for each picture, preferably with the persons name in the salutation at the start of the email. I have done some googling trying to find a solution to this. I think that I need to use automator. (The lightroom option of mailing directly from within the programme isn't going to do the job, each mail would need to be addressed and written by hand each time). I have been playing around with it, but can see no way to populate the email address field or add the attachment. Can anyone help me out, with even just the basic outline, of how this would be achieved please?

Hi everyone, I'm trying to use Automator to batch process PDF files. I have hundreds of academic journal article PDFs whose page sizes vary from 5x7 inches to A4 format (8.27 x 11.69 inches). I want to scale all the PDFs to US Letter size (8.5 x 11.0 inches) such that smaller originals remain 100% scale but are centered on the larger page and larger originals are scaled down to fit the page. Manually opening a PDF in Preview.app, scaling it to US Letter paper, and using the Save as PDF option is producing the desired output for me. I captured my workflow using the Watch Me Do action in Automator, then adjusted it into the following AppleScript. -- a Get Specified Finder Items action to specify the input PDFs precedes this script on run {input, parameters} repeat with filePath in input -- Open the file in Preview tell application "Preview" open filePath activate end tell -- Give Preview some time to open the file delay 2.0 -- Press ⌘P set timeoutSeconds to 0.25 set uiScript to "keystroke \"p\" using command down" my doWithTimeout(uiScript, timeoutSeconds) -- Click the “Scale to Fit:” radio button. delay 2.0 set timeoutSeconds to 2.0 set uiScript to "click radio button \"Scale to Fit:\" of radio group 1 of group 1 of group 2 of scroll area 2 of splitter group 1 of sheet 1 of window 1 of application process \"Preview\"" my doWithTimeout(uiScript, timeoutSeconds) -- Click the “<fill in title>” menu button. delay 4.0 set timeoutSeconds to 2.000000 set uiScript to "click menu button 1 of group 2 of splitter group 1 of sheet 1 of window 1 of application process \"Preview\"" my doWithTimeout( uiScript, timeoutSeconds ) -- Save as PDF… delay 2.0 set timeoutSeconds to 2.0 set uiScript to "click menu item 2 of menu 1 of splitter group 1 of sheet 1 of window 1 of application process \"Preview\"" my doWithTimeout(uiScript, timeoutSeconds) -- Click the “Save” button. delay 8.0 set timeoutSeconds to 2.0 set uiScript to "click UI Element \"Save\" of sheet 1 of sheet 1 of window 1 of application process \"Preview\"" my doWithTimeout(uiScript, timeoutSeconds) -- Press ⌘W to close the file delay 0.25 set timeoutSeconds to 2.0 set uiScript to "keystroke \"w\" using command down" my doWithTimeout(uiScript, timeoutSeconds) end repeat return input end run on doWithTimeout(uiScript, timeoutSeconds) set endDate to (current date) + timeoutSeconds repeat try run script "tell application \"System Events\" " & uiScript & " end tell" exit repeat on error errorMessage if ((current date) > endDate) then error "Can not " & uiScript end if end try end repeat end doWithTimeout My problem arises at the Save as PDF step. When this action runs, I see the PDF menu pop open: but the Save as PDF... menu item doesn't get clicked. Instead, I get an error: Can anyone advise on how to overcome this error?

I have: an Automator workflow saved as an application "workflow.app" an Apple Script saved as an application "script.app" a PDF file residing on Desktop "test.pdf" How do I launch workflow.app and pass test.pdf as the input for workflow from inside script.app?

trying to quit 2 apps and launch a 3rd. 3 individual Automator apps work by themselves fine. But can't get them to "open an app" from Calendar at a specified time. Tried building an Apple Script. Same issue. Here's the Automator app. ** tell application "Jellyfin Media Player" to quit delay 1 tell application "Jellyfin server 10.10.1" to quit delay 1 tell application "EmbyServer 4.8.10" to activate** any help on what I'm doing wrong? seems simple enough. Both Automator and Script Ed have "full disk access" and "Accessibility"

Have anyone seen a orange microphone logo open on the dynamic island, and after you click on it opens a accessibility app with the black screen?

Hello, I am new to Automator and have been trying to set up a simple automation that will go to a specific folder and delete folders contained within that folder that start with a specific name. I use Get Specific Finder items and navigate to the folder. Then use Filter Finder Items and list the folder names I want to delete. Then use Get Selected Finder Items & finally I use Move Finder Items to Trash. I get green lights up until the Move Finder Items to Trash. At that point I get the error message "Move Finder Items to Trash was not supplied with the requested data.". Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? Thanks in advance!

I want to use the Shortcuts app on macOS Monterey to modify M4A/AAC audio file metadata for files that I have ripped from CD to my local Music app library. How can I use a regular expression on track titles to replace text that matches a certain regex pattern? I have already written the regex, I just need help with the Shortcuts app. I've started my shortcut with a "Find Music" action connected to a "Repeat with Each" loop action. Within the loop, I use a "Get Details of Music" action to get the title, which is passed to a "Replace Text" action using my regex. I just don't know how to write the correct new title into the music file's title/name metadata field. I tried a "Rename File" action with type "iTunes media" to try to set the "Title" field, but the field wasn't updated either in the Music app or in the M4A/AAC file itself. I couldn't find any other actions that seemed like they might be able to modify the field. I'd prefer a solution that goes through the Music app / its APIs, rather than directly modifying the M4A on the file system, because the latter would force me to have the Music app scan for changed files after the files we're modified.

I've uninstalled and reinstalled VLC media player multiple times. However, I receive the following message opening the app after each installation: Translated Report (Full Report Below) Process: VLC [71778] Path: /Applications/VLC2.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC Identifier: org.videolan.vlc Version: 3.0.21 (3.0.21) Code Type: ARM-64 (Native) Parent Process: launchd [1] User ID: 501 Date/Time: 2024-08-14 12:27:24.3563 -0400 OS Version: macOS 14.6.1 (23G93) Report Version: 12 Anonymous UUID: 9DDE1CE7-A635-1165-0FE9-04EA599A542F Sleep/Wake UUID: E22A843E-7A51-414F-BA7F-AB35B1674915 Time Awake Since Boot: 300000 seconds Time Since Wake: 267959 seconds System Integrity Protection: enabled Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV) Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000102af4ae8 Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000001, 0x0000000102af4ae8 Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 11 Segmentation fault: 11 Terminating Process: exc handler [71778] VM Region Info: 0x102af4ae8 is not in any region. Bytes after previous region: 2793 Bytes before following region: 783640 REGION TYPE START - END [ VSIZE] PRT/MAX SHRMOD REGION DETAIL __LINKEDIT 102ae8000-102af4000 [ 48K] r--/rwx SM=COW /Applications/VLC2.app/Contents/Frameworks/Breakpad.framework/Versions/A/Resources/breakpadUtilities.dylib ---> GAP OF 0xc0000 BYTES __TEXT 102bb4000-102c78000 [ 784K] r-x/rwx SM=COW /Applications/VLC2.app/Contents/MacOS/lib/libvlccore.9.dylib Application Specific Information: *** multi-threaded process forked *** crashed on child side of fork pre-exec Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread 0 libsystem_trace.dylib 0x193d8b0c0 _os_log_preferences_refresh + 68 1 libsystem_trace.dylib 0x193d8bb20 os_log_type_enabled + 712 2 CoreFoundation 0x1940da800 _CFBundleCopyPreferredLanguagesInList + 516 3 CoreFoundation 0x1940e75a4 _CFBundleCopyLanguageSearchListInBundle + 124 4 CoreFoundation 0x1940e738c _copyQueryTable + 64 5 CoreFoundation 0x1940e6d5c _copyResourceURLsFromBundle + 376 6 CoreFoundation 0x1940e6118 _CFBundleCopyFindResources + 1400 7 CoreFoundation 0x1940e5b90 CFBundleCopyResourceURL + 56 8 CoreAudio 0x1966c3b58 HALSystem::InitializeShell() + 1412 9 CoreAudio 0x1966c3274 HALSystem::CheckOutInstance() + 192 10 CoreAudio 0x19693360c AudioObjectSetPropertyData_mac_imp + 116 11 libauhal_plugin.dylib 0x10290915c 0x102904000 + 20828 12 VLC 0x1025df4dc 0x1025d8000 + 29916 13 dyld 0x193cb3154 start + 2476 Thread 0 crashed with ARM Thread State (64-bit): x0: 0x00000001fbe8cfec x1: 0x0000000193da0985 x2: 0x0000000001000104 x3: 0x0000000000000000 x4: 0x0000000193da0937 x5: 0x000000016d826500 x6: 0x0000000000000074 x7: 0x0000000000000000 x8: 0x0000000102af4ae6 x9: 0x00000001fbe97610 x10: 0x0000000000000001 x11: 0x0000000143909730 x12: 0x0000000000000001 x13: 0x000000016d8266f0 x14: 0xaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa x15: 0x0000000193da01db x16: 0x0000000193ffd7d4 x17: 0x000000020658e3e0 x18: 0x0000000000000000 x19: 0x0000000143909700 x20: 0x0000000143909700 x21: 0x0000000102af4aea x22: 0x0000000102af4aea x23: 0x0000000143d069f0 x24: 0x0000000143d075a0 x25: 0x0000000000000016 x26: 0x0000000000000000 x27: 0x0000000143d07c60 x28: 0x0000000143d06af0 fp: 0x000000016d826a30 lr: 0x0000000193d8b0a4 sp: 0x000000016d8269e0 pc: 0x0000000193d8b0c0 cpsr: 0x20001000 far: 0x0000000102af4ae8 esr: 0x92000007 (Data Abort) byte read Translation fault

Hello all, I am wondering if anyone can help me with writing a script that fully uninstalls an app with one click or can point me to a script already written please? So that when I click the script it uninstalls the app and leaves nothing behind. So when I click finder and use the search function with the name of the app, then click add and then name matches (input name of app) then click add and select system files are included, nothing comes up as the script has completely removed it from my system. I am Using Mac Mini M2 Pro 16gb ram and macOS Sonoma. Thank you

Can someone update about the current state of the Automator app in macOS. Automator seems like a valuable tool for automating tasks on macOS but in the recent years I have noticed a growing emphasis on the Shortcuts app for automation. It would be great if you could clarify the following: • Current Status of Automator: Is there any official statement regarding the continued support of the Automator app in future macOS versions? • Future of Automator: Does Apple plan to introduce new features or updates for Automator in upcoming releases? • Indifference to Shortcuts App: From what I understand both the ‘Automator’ and the ‘Shortcuts’ app are used for creating workflows/shortcuts to automate tasks. What is it that Automator app has to offer which cannot be done using the Shortcuts app? assuming the continued support for the Automator app. Can all the automator workflows not be automated using the shortcuts app? I understand that Apple is constantly innovating and introducing new tools. However, clarity regarding the future of Automator would be helpful for users like myself. In addition, as a developer I wanted to offer some actions for my application in the Automator app, so that the user can make use of it to create some workflows. But from what I found in the apple documentation here, these action are created using the ‘Automator action’ Project type template in the xcode. However, in the current version of xcode 15, this project type seems to be missing. Does it indicate that apple no longer provides support for applications to create new automator action? If not, how can I provide automator actions for my xcode application?

Hi, I have an app generated by using osacompile on an applescript file. The app works fine as expected. However, when I try to sign it, I get two errors as in the screen shot below: After some googling around, I deleted the _CodeSignature folder in the .app directory but still signing fails with the same error. So, I would like to know two things: Is it possible to sign .app files created using osacompile as in my case? If yes, what am I missing and how to resolve my situation. Thanks,

I am trying to import an Automator workflow into the Shortcuts app. I have tried all the methods [suggested by Apple] but all fail with this error: I have copied the workflow to various folders and tried again with the same result. Is this a permissions issue ? I'm on macOS 14.1 Sonoma with Shortcuts 7.0.

Firstly, I'm a novice in automator & applescript. I have however managed to create an automator workflow that falls over at the second iteration. What I am trying to do is the following: working in Sierra I have an old app (Discus) that has an export capability for graphics that reside in the app. It appears that Discus does not have either AppleScript or Automator built in. The workflow has the following steps: move cursor direction right one keystroke (working) / select export from the menu (working) / keystroke a unique file name for the export file (not working) / save to folder (working) / Loop x1000 (working). At the moment the workflow falls over the second time it attempts to name the export file. I cannot find a way to auto create a new name for each iteration. Consequently Discus hangs waiting for a decision on whether to overwrite the initial exported file or to create a new filename. It would be beneficial to create a new file names using sequential numbering. There is an action for doing this in the finder, however this does not work in the workflow as I presume the file saving action is taking place in Discus, not in the finder. Any ideas on how to overcome this, or evenif it's possible. It may be that Automator in Sierra is more limited in capability than in current Mac OS? Thanks

I'm trying to automate making accurate alarms to help me estimate when I need to leave to be on time for meetings. To do this accurately, I want to access Apple Maps (or Google Maps services, or ...) to get an estimate of driving times given current driving conditions. So I'd like to query the maps service reasonably close to departure time. (If I get an estimate on Sunday evening at for an appoint on Monday at rush hour leaving from a different location, it's obviously going to be inaccurate.) Ideally, I'd like to directly access my Apple Calendar to get the appointments and their locations. But if that's too complicated, I'll just create a formatted text file or sqlite file or whatever with the information. I've considered doing this with Shortcuts, Automator, AppleScript, JXA, Hammerspoon, Python, etc. It seems that each technology has part of what I need, but not all. But I don't have deep knowledge of any of them. Perhaps someone can advise me on the most appropriate technology. Here are my impressions: Shortcuts: Has built in access to driving time estimates and Calendar events, but awkward and possibly too limited in terms of program logic. Automator: Is more capable than Shortcuts in some ways, less in others. AppleScript: I don't know. JXA: I prefer Javascript to AppleScript, but it seems hard to find good documentation. Python: I'm quite proficient in Python, but I don't know if I can access things like Calendar events. If not, I'm willing to keep a separate file manually. (I could perhaps create the Calendar events from this, except that some appointments are set up by my work.) Hammerspoon: I don't have any experience with it and don't know it's capabilities. Any advice appreciated.

I m using Mac Automator app to add new actions to the right click quick menu for files and folder. As can we seen in the image we have a number of actions available for mail app, Calendar, photos and other apps. I wanted to know whether something similar can be done for my app. I wanted to list my app in the library and provide some similar action options. Can it be done?

I am currently automating a Flutter app in iOS plateform, and the developer has implemented a CupertinoDatePicker for date selection (screenshot attached). Upon inspecting the element properties, I found the relevant property specifically for the month as well as other selectors. Although I can successfully inspect the element, I encounter an issue when attempting to select a different month using the sendKeys function. I have also attempted to use the JavaScript executor, but unfortunately, it has not resolved the problem. I am currently stuck at this point and seeking assistance. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance. For native apps we were getting type of this datepicker as 'XCUIElementTypePickerWheel' and using send keys we were able to set values. but for flutter iOS app it is not working as well type property we are getting as 'XCUIElementTypeOther' Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance. Element Properties: [{“key”:“elementId”,“value”:“54000000-0000-0000-4719-000000000000”,“name”:“elementId”},{“key”:“type”,“value”:“XCUIElementTypeOther”,“name”:“type”},{“key”:“value”,“value”:“7”,“name”:“value”},{“key”:“enabled”,“value”:“true”,“name”:“enabled”},{“key”:“visible”,“value”:“true”,“name”:“visible”},{“key”:“accessible”,“value”:“true”,“name”:“accessible”},{“key”:“x”,“value”:“213”,“name”:“x”},{“key”:“y”,“value”:“553”,“name”:“y”},{“key”:“width”,“value”:“47”,“name”:“width”},{“key”:“height”,“value”:“183”,“name”:“height”},{“key”:“index”,“value”:“3”,“name”:“index”}]