Found 2 entries tagged with “finder”
- Easy backups with Automator and smart folders
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Posted 10 April ‘06
A while back I did some bitching and moaning about not being able to use Finder’s smart folders for doing backups. A quick recap, minus the whinging: I wanted to be able to label files with colours and have them copied to my iDisk using an Automator workflow. I tried … and failed. So I cobbled together an alternative solution marking files with Spotlight comments instead of colours. It did the job, but not the way I wanted. But now someone has, at last, written the one action for Automator that I’ve been waiting for all along. - Backup files automatically by selecting them in Finder 0
Posted 20 December ‘05
A while back I did some complaining about the fact that I couldn’t label files using Finder’s coloured labels and then back them up using Backup or Automator.