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Clean up your Desktop with Folder Actions

Posted on January 15, 2019January 15, 2019 by Zan

Familiar with the scenario of “Screen Shot” files filling up your Desktop space? Sick and tired of manually moving them to a folder? What about moving all images on your Desktop to a custom folder? What about documents? Well, you can with Apple’s “Folder Actions” using Automator. It’s very simple!

Start with creating a folder where you will store your screen shots. I created one on my Desktop called “screenshots”.

Open up Automator and if you aren’t shown a prompt immediately, choose “New” and then select “Folder Action” from the drop-down. From there, configure the Folder Action similar to this:

Note: The top-right section says it will act upon files and folders added to “Desktop”.

Once you have your action all set up, save it, name it, then click the “Save” button. Then, highlight your Desktop folder in the Finder. Right-click on your Desktop folder and choose Services > “Folder Actions Setup”.

If no other Folder Actions have been set up for this folder, you should receive a drop-down menu, asking for which Folder Action to assign to your Desktop folder. Choose the Folder Action you just saved in Automator.

Sha-bamz! You’re all done!

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