Folder Actions Unreliable?
Folder Actions Unreliable?
- Subject: Folder Actions Unreliable?
- From: Steve Thompson <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 20:36:47 -0700
| I'd love to hear some of your experiences, so I know if I'm chasing my tail or not.
I've commonly used Folder Actions to do various things with generally good results. However I recently set up an Automator Workflow that takes the Finder Items dropped in a folder, renames them (actually adds a suffix before the extension) and moves them to a finished files folder.
Dropping a file or two on the watched folder works fine, however the purpose of this is to act on a bunch of exported files from Final Cut Server (via compressor). Often this results in a barrage of 20-30 files being added to the folder in relatively short order. The problem is that the Workflow runs only some of the time. Of perhaps 30 files exported to this folder, there will be 7-8 stragglers that just never get renamed and moved, no matter how long I wait. If I do the export again, the results may be better or worse and may or may not include the same subset of files.
Has anyone else had issues with Folder Action reliability in something as simple as this? I made my Folder Action in Automator simply because rename and move took me less than 5 minutes to make, but I could easily create the same thing with an Applescript, but I wonder if the results would be any more reliable or is this just a "feature" of Folder Actions?
Any thoughts?
Steve
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