Tags: AppleScript, Automation, default folder, Default Folder X, workflow I’d love to hear how others use this feature, so please drop me a line if it works for you too! I think Jason’s idea is great – it streamlines work on multiple projects, but most importantly, it reduces the chance for error as you’re trying to meet that pressing deadline. And of course, you can also use Jason’s complete script as a starting point. I’ve tried to explain things clearly in the comment at the top, and the script shows a number of different ways of returning folders to Default Folder X. Open up the sample script file in Script Editor (or your AppleScript editor of choice) and have a look. Which returns the location of the default folder. On getDefaultFolder(appName, dialogType, firstTime) The trick is that you need to implement this handler: ~/Library/Application Support/5/Scripts/Preview/ĭownload this example script file to see what you need to do in your AppleScript script: To have it queried only for Preview, for example, put an AppleScript in: Or, if you want it to handle only a single application, put it in a sub-folder of the Scripts folder named for the application you want it to serve. So how do you wire up Default Folder X to do this? It’s pretty simple.
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How to set up an AppleScript to specify a default folder If you have one primary file for each project, it’s easy to tell which one you’re currently working on – it’s the one that’s been saved most recently. This can obviously translate to all sorts of different workflows. He wrote an AppleScript to do this, which he shared on the Six Colors blog. The “Audio Files” folder sitting next to that project is where everything should go for the current project. To find the correct default folder for audio clips, all he has to do is look at all the project files and see which one has been saved most recently. So for each podcast episode, there’s one master Logic X project file. He uses Apple’s Logic X application to create his podcasts. So he hit on this idea (which I think is just brilliant). Essentially: Wouldn’t it be great if you could edit an audio clip, hit Save, and have it automatically go into the folder for the current podcast folder? No re-configuring a default folder for each new project – it’d just work. His reasoning was that if he could magically tell Default Folder X what podcast he was working on, it would always offer to save the component audio files into the folder for that podcast. His problem was that you have to set a single folder as the app’s default folder – just one. At that time, you could set a default folder for an application so that when you chose Save As, it always offered to save a file in that particular folder. He emailed to ask if it would be possible to make Default Folder X more flexible.
Jason Snell (of Six Colors and The Incomparable fame) has been writing about Macs forever, and is now a prolific podcaster.
That may sound like a mouthful of jargon, so let me explain, because it can be applied in a lot of situations. Version 5.3.7 of Default Folder X introduced a new capability: it can now ask what the default folder for an application should be on the fly using AppleScript.
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