Hello
I am using hazel to trigger an automator action each time pictures arrives into a folder
Until now i was using several folders and several hazel rules triggering several automator actions, each of them having the same purpose :
the automator action takes each image one by one, moves it to another folder, and from this folder opens it with a photoshop dropplet, and then looping until there are no pictures left with some delay between each to avoid that one picture would not be processed
this process also helps keeping track on the number of pictures processed because they are automatically printed at the end of the photoshop action and saved in a second folder
To be able to use the same process with several folders at the same time, i have added applescripts in hazel rules checking that no automator action is running and looping until the right time, this as prooved to be effecient with very low and acceptable rate of errors, but it implies giving a position of priority to the folders, each folder is related to one camera or memory card.
But now i want to modify the workflow for some reasons, rather than using folders to choose what dropplet will be used, i want to do it by filtering the pictures names, that way i will be able to let the pictures arrive in the same folder triggering only one automator action, and with in this action be able to tell which dropplet to open according the the camera picture name, this will allow me to choose on the go from the camera which size of print i want to do for exemple
I have thought to do it with hazel, but that ends to some problems i need to avoid : prevent simultaneous triggering of photoshop actions and priority to one camera are the main reasons
That is why i want to add the filtering into automator looping action that is taking items incrementally, this way the filtering would be just before opening the file in the dropplet without making any priority on the camera and will keep the arrival time
i tried to do "filter finder items -> open finder items -> filter finder items -> open finder items", but the problem is that the second filter is acting under the first filter (i suppose), but i need it to work as a "if or if" not a if->if, this way i could choose what dropplet will each picture be opened according to camera picture naming, but i don't know how to do that in automator and if it is possible because of the incremential part
I hope i have explained this well, sorry for my english if this is not clear, just ask me again, thanks in advance for your help
Also if anyone has a hazel rule to make hashtag sniffing from instagram, i am looking for that, thanks again