05.02
I’ve been messing around with Automator a bit and I’m slowly realising how powerful it really is…
My first Automator Action is a photo_email app. Basically, it allows you to select any image(s) from your iPhoto library without opening that application, makes copies of them into a temporary folder and then resizes the copies as specified by you. It then sends them to a new email message as attachments – you add the addressee details, send it and then the action deletes the temporary folder from your desktop.
It’s easier than opening iPhoto (which can take ages) and it clears up after itself… I don’t know how useful it might be to other people, but it’s something I’ll use quite a bit…
Anyway, click below to download a copy of it – the archive file contains the workflow doc, an application file and a readme file.
Download the email_photo action (.zip or .pkg)
Update: There seems to be some issue with this action on ‘some’ machines but not on others… I’m investigating it and I’ll update again when it’s resolved or I know more…
Hello,
I download you email photo action. The action works if you open up the “flow”, but doesn’t work if yo just double click the “app” icon..it won’t discard the temp folder into the trash (last action). Has anyone had this issue? Or others with automator. I’ve even copied the work flow and saved it as my own and it still won’t work when clicking on the icon, but works when you hit “run” in the work flow screen…doesn’t make any sense!
Thanks,
Tom
Hi,
I downloaded your action and tried it by clicking the app icon and by opening the flow, but neither worked. I have my iphoto library on a partitioned disk and it seems that causes a problem. I can select the file and photos but get a message that “the file is not located on this volume” or something of the like. I put the issue to the forum, but nobody answered. Do you know anything about the get or find commands being an issue with partitioned drives?
Scott
Yikes! This thing just made my system go haywire!!! It’s stuck on “New Folder” and seems to be making a copy of my Desktop folder inside the email_photo_temp folder…and I can’t figure out how to kill it!!! Also, the installer that I downloaded from Apple’s page didn’t seem to install anything at all. I’m totally puzzled…
Okay, it just stopped. It copied some of the files from my Desktop into the email_photo_temp folder, then finally asked me to select photos and I was able to quit at that point. Automator is pretty cool, but CLEARLY a 1.0 release (at best).
I am quite interested in your iPhoto Automator action but the link to it is dead… have you taken it down intentionally?