Re: Automator help
Re: Automator help
- Subject: Re: Automator help
- From: Steve Weintraub <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 23:08:39 -0500
The range of tasks isn't that narrow anymore; there are gobs of 3rd
party actions now.
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On Nov 30, 2005, at 7:53 PM, Steve Ingram wrote:
At least I'm not the only one!
I guess I get frustrated when Apple tells us - and I quote -
"Luckily for you, Tiger comes with Automator, your own personal
robotic assistant that will take care of whatever grueling task you
give it…"
I'm not sure what Apple's definition of "whatever grueling task you
give it" is, but I suspect they mean "as long as it is one of a
very, very, and we mean VERY narrow range of tasks, unless you run
an Applescript as part of the Automator job, in which case you need
to be a programmer anyway, so forget what we just said about lucky
you."
sigh-
On Nov 30, 2005, at 4:43 PM, net kat wrote:
Steve;
I'm prbly about in the same boat as you..I gave Automator a good,
hard look, had little luck creating workflows for which there ARE
actions. For other types of jobs, unless you can make an action to
do that job, you're stuck.
Applescript seems like a better way to go, but I don't have time
to learn scripting....
Maybe Apple will give Automator a "watch me" function..'til then,
I consider it a kind of half-baked toy.
nk
On Nov 30, 2005, at 6:34 PM, Steve Ingram wrote:
I've got what I was hoping is a simple task that needs to be
repeated about 1000 times. Maybe I'm stupid, but I was hoping
that Automator would, well, automate the job.
From looking at available automator actions I can't see that
anything really useful can be done - at least not anything *I*
need to do.
So, is anyone reading this list? I don't really want to start
asking questions if I'm only going to be talking to myself. I
haven't seen any traffic on this list in a long time.
Steve
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