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The more you use macOS, the more you can grow frustrated with the amount of manual intervention you have to take when it comes to keeping your file system organised. Whether it's keeping your Downloads folder tidy, looking for screenshots (you remember taking one, you just can't remember when…) or going through a huge array of different files on your desktop, well, that's not what you enjoy doing on your Mac.
With macOS Tahoe, Shortcuts gained the ability to automate actions on folders. In this video, Lee walks you through three different examples that may have a quick-win style impact on your workflows. Example 1 will keep your Downloads folder organised while the second will automatically resize image files for you when they hit a specific folder. In the third automation trick, Lee will guide you as you level up your scripting skills and stop screenshots from building up on your desktop at the same time.
This video was created on macOS 26 Tahoe.
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Perfect video length. Utilizable and Generalizable Examples and No tutorial bloat / or tutorial overexplaination.
\(OuO)/*\(^-^)/ (highfive!) Thanks and can't wait for more
Thanks! Whilst I IDEALLY try to keep the Tuesday videos around the 10 minute mark, this one just wouldn't work that way and I didn't want to cut vital information/drop an example to bring it in, or pad it out with 'bloat' to make it a full Friday one, so I'm glad that decision landed. I can see myself with update videos on this theme regularly.
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