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Using AppleScript for workflow automation on Mac

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Using AppleScript for workflow automation on Mac I see a lot of people talking (or writing) about workflow automation on Mac OS X. Most of them (almost all) talk about Automator. In my opinion there is a much better way to automate your workflow on OS X. AppleScript. AppleScript is basically the technology underlying Automator. But instead of clicking and dragging and not understanding the Automator menus, you write clean code that does exactly what you want it to do. Automated workflow using Automator Take me for example. I like how Dropbox offered to upload my phones photos automatically. The second I hook up my phone, the photos are being imported into Dropbox -> Pictures -> Camera Uploads. After a while however, I realized that this was starting to take up much more space than I actually had and I kept manually moving the photos to a different location. For a while, every time I hooked up my phone I manually moved the pictures. Of course, I wanted that to change. So I had a l...