Running Mac OS 10.10.3
I edit videos for a living. Frequently, clients give me a mess of files that are all disorganized into subdirectories of folders.
I want to select a parent folder, and in Finder Services > run an Automator workflow that looks through all subfolders, finds Photo files, finds Video files, and then puts them into corresponding new folders named PHOTOS and VIDEOS, inside that parent folder I selected. I don't know much about how to use variables, but need help stringing together an Automator Service to pull it off. Currently I have:
Set Value of Variable: hostfolder
Get Folder Contents: repeat for each subfolder found
Filter Finder Items: All > File extension > contains > mov or MOV
Move Finder Items: ???
Any help completing this properly?
Use two more Set Value of Variables at the very beginning, and set one up for PHOTOS and the other for VIDEOS. Move your videos to the proper path, then the PHOTOS. I am not sure you can do this with a single Workflow, unless you ask it to analyze hostfolder a second time to find all the photo files. If that works, you should still only need to define the final destination folders once.
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I have a bunch (roughly 10.000) of Images named "XXXXX.psd", where X is a number. Sometimes the name string is shorter (XXX.psd).
I also have a List which tells me which of these images I need, roughly 180 images every two weeks or so. I'd like to make an automation that takes said list and then automatically copies the needed images into a separate folder.
Any help is appreciated, I kno nothing about applescript or javascript, but am willing to try it :P
PS: The images are in separate folders. The list is a pdf but i managed to extract it into an xlsx/table, and could also just have it in plain txt.
My application works with HealthKit data in order to create some reports from the user's workout data and exports them to one or more files (mainly CSV and sometimes GPX files). To allow the user to access these files I present the standard UIActivityViewController passing as items an array of file as [URL] and no application activities (this is the relevant line in the code where files is the array of URLs).
It all works without issues, but today one of my users reported that when multiple files are exported and Dropbox is selected as the target for sharing the files, only the first one is saved and the others are ignored. Is there something I can do about it or is an issue that must be solved by Dropbox? To my understanding it should be the latter, but I can be missing something.
If they are relevant, here are two screenshot of the sharing screen under iOS 13: in the first only one CSV file is being shared and there's a Save to Dropbox option, in the second I'm sharing 2 CSV and 1 GPX files and that option is no longer there. In the second case there's still Copy to Dropbox (hidden) and it leads to only one file being saved, if I use Save to Files, all 3 files are correctly saved.
Marco,
You are right, this is a Dropbox issue, not an issue with your apps export. It looks like the Dropbox app, by default, only accepts one file when received from the export action. Here is the workaround. The native iOS Files app will accept multiple export files and it is possible to add the Dropbox folders to the Files app, effectively allowing the multiple files to be uploaded to Dropbox.
Adding Dropbox to Files app:
Open Files app, on the app main screen, click the three dots in the upper right corner, and select edit.
This will show a ghosted Dropbox file with a toggle switch next to it, tap to add Dropbox to the list of available files.
Exporting the Multiple Files to Dropbox:
Once steps 1 and 2 are complete, go to the desired export app, and select the file you want to export.
In the list of export options, select the iOS Files app (not Dropbox), and then select the Dropbox file within the Files app. Then you can select the Dropbox sub-folder you want the multiple export files to be placed in.
That accomplishes the desired goal in the same number of steps as exporting to DropBox.
I'm developing a MVC5 web app, hosted through azure, that lets you manage your movies (it's just for myself at the moment). I'm trying to find a way to scan a local folder on the users pc for a list of file names. I do realise the security/permissions issues I might run into. I do not need the file uploaded, only the full file name.
It would work by the user being able to select a folder where they store their movies and it will take in all the file names, including the ones in any sub directories.
I tried a multiple file upload form but quickly ran into issues with the max request limit which I tried messing around with but it proved redundant in the end. I can settle for the user selecting multiple files but would rather it done the directory way.
I know this might prove impossible in the end but any help would be greatly appreciated.
i have a quick question and would really appropriate some advice.
i am trying to upload images to a directory held in in the view of a module.
the full link to the pic's directory in 'my member's module' is:
C:/Users/test/zend/testingZend2/module/Members/view/members/pics
however, the upload function is held in MembersController :
C:/Users/test/zend/testingZend2/module/Members/src/Members/Controller/membersController
i am able to upload images to the directory. however, i obviously don't want to use the full URL. i want to use a relative link.
i tried the relative links below but they don't work;
Members/view/members/pics
and
../../../view/members/pics
is there for example a function like dirname(DIR) that will provide the first half of the link to the pics directory.
thank you for your help
Paths are relative to the application root, so module/Members/view/members/pics should work.
I would question whether the view folder is a sensible place to store user-uploaded images. Images aren't views, and you won't be able to display these images easily since they are not in a public folder.
Does anyone have some sample code demonstrating how to make a "file browser" view? I'd like to be able to navigate through directories and drill-down the sub-directories and see files located within the various folders. I want the user to be able to create new directories/files and even select an existing file. Is there sample code out there already available to do this?
I don't know about sample code, but this wouldn't be too complicated to achieve using NSFileManager and a UITableView.
You can obtain arrays of directory contents using the subpathsOfDirectoryAtPath:error and associated methods of a file manager. These arrays in turn can populate a UITableView. It would be fairly easy to put together a navigation controller that could display a series of table views showing a file hiearchy.
Bear in mind, however, that you'll only be able to access the directories inside your application sandbox, unless you're running on a jailbroken device.
The iOS programming guide says that
You should never present users with the list of files in this directory and ask them to decide what to do with those files. Instead, sort through the files programmatically and add files without prompting.
This is assuming you are trying to implement file browse feature for your documents directory.
I'm an author of FileExplorer which is a file browser for iOS and fulfills most of your requirements.
Here are some of the features of my control:
Possibility to choose files or/and directories if there is a need for that
Possiblity to remove files or/and directories if there is a need for that
Built-in search functionality
View Audio, Video, Image and PDF files.
Possibility to add support for any file type.
You can find my control here.