How to"Import Into iBooks" (Mavericks)

[Tetsugaku]

Hello - I used to watch my ebooks folder and auto import and documents into iTunes to sync to my iPad - now I can't as books need to go into iBooks.

Any ideas?

Cheers!

[Mr_Noodle]

It seems that iBooks does not provide AppleScript support so there's no good way to do this. You can use the "Open" action, which has the side effect of importing it but it is a bit more disruptive since it opens the book as well.

[Tetsugaku]

Pfff that's a bit rubbish on Apples'a part, bad form. Still, at least I can do something I suppose, with luck they will add some better AS support later.

thanks very much

[Mr_Noodle]

I suggest bugging Apple about it: http://www.apple.com/feedback/

[Tetsugaku]

Done - if anyone else want s to do the same thing I went to

http://www.apple.com/feedback/ibooks.html

cheers!

[awsisme]

This appears to work well as an embedded script, from Doug Adams http://dougscripts.com/itunes/category/ibooks/

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using terms from application "iTunes"
   tell application "iBooks" to open theFile
end using terms from


and this way as a an external file.

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on hazelProcessFile(theFile)
   
   -- 'theFile' is an alias to the file that matched.
   -- Make sure to throw errors if you do not want Hazel
   -- to consider this action to have run successfully.
   
   using terms from application "iTunes"
      tell application "iBooks" to open theFile
   end using terms from
   
end hazelProcessFile


[Mr_Noodle]

Does this work differently than have Hazel open the file in iBooks via the "Open" action?

[GeekNeck]

Thank you awsisme! I have the problem that opening in iBooks has never worked and I just found your solution. Works like a charm.

FYI, when I try the "Open in iBooks" Hazel action, I get this in the log

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2017-09-24 07:39:19.689 hazelworker[12904] Could not set tags for URL file:///Applications/iBooks%20Author.app/: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-5000 "afpAccessDenied: Insufficient access privileges for operation "
2017-09-24 07:39:19.689 hazelworker[12904] Caught exception in rule evaluation of file iBooks Author.app: Could not set tags for /Applications/iBooks Author.app