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Automator workflow of the month: Automatically copy Photo Stream images
   



   

I recently read Jeff Carlson’s “Four things Apple could do to improve iPhoto right now,” and one point he made struck me in particular—that I couldn't make Photo Stream images appear in a folder of my choosing. Thinking how convenient this could be—for copying images into my Dropbox folder, for example—I set about finding a way.

The slow and clumsy way

A simple-but-clumsy way to do this is to access the folder where the images are stored on your Mac and then open a load of folders inside that folder to get to your images. You can navigate to this folder by choosing Go > Go to Folder in the Finder, entering ~/Library/Application Support/iLifeAssetManagement/assets/sub in the Go to the folder field, and clicking Go. This exposes a window full of folders, each folder containing an image.

The "sub' folder, packed with subfolders that hold images

As I said, clumsy. And lacking the kind of automation that would make the process really sing. So naturally I turned to Automator. And came up with this.

The Automator way


Launch Automator (in your /Applications folder) and from the workflow template chooser select Folder Action and click Choose. Into the very top pop-up menu that follows ‘Folder Action receives files and folders added to’, drag the folder named ‘sub’ that we just visited.
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