
There are two solutions to this problem. The “big
hammer” approach is simply to open your saved
Automator action, and run it again. But this is
overkill for fixing a few folders.
Instead, open your existing action, and
delete the first action in the work area (the Get
Specified Finder Items entry). Just click once on
it, then hit delete. This leaves just the Set Folder
Views action in place. Next, select File: Save As
Plug-in, and give your new plug-in a name like
“Set Folder to My View” or something similarly
remindful of its functionality. Set the Plug-in For
pop-up to Finder, and click Save.
You’ve now got a new Finder plug-in you can
easily use to set the view options for a given
folder (and its subfolders, unless you removed
the subfolder option). Just highlight a folder
in the Finder, control-click on it, scroll down to
Automator, and choose Set Folder to my View
from the submenu. Presto, you’ve just changed
everything to your preferred view.
You could expand this last step, too — create
a number of different view settings, one each for
icon, list, and column view, each one set up as
you prefer. You should also probably uncheck the
Apply Changes to Sub-folders box as well, so that
you’ll take action only on the current folder. Then
just save each as a Finder plug-in, and you’ve got
a quick and easy way to set any one folder to a
customized view.
Automator is really a powerful tool that can
help you create simple tools that make using OS
X even more fun and productive than it
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Sheldon Gross
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Neither the Grosses
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We just got back from Merrie Olde England
where we spent two weeks meandering around
Bath and London and enjoying the World
Championship Fencing Competition in which
our son was a participant. He won the National
Competition in Foil in Georgia and went to
Bath to represent the USA. You’ll have to excuse
our parental pride since he’s been fencing for
over years, and we feel he deserves a pat on
the back, to say the least. He did quite respect-
ably, coming in tenth out of foil fencers
representing over nations, but he, of course,
wanted a medal. He is already planning for next
year’s competition in Australia.
This is a lead in to our computer problem.
I had written about the fir part of the trip in
a Word document, which I left on my desktop.
A couple of days later, I opened the document
and wrote about the second part of the trip. All
of a sudden the document disappeared and a
Sore Eyes
window opened that said something like: Do
you want to save the original document? Yes or no.
I hit yes, like a fool, and there was the original
document sans the second half that I had ju
written. I have been looking for it all over the
hard drive but can’t find it. Is it on my computer,
somewhere? If so, how do I find it?
Anyone have any ideas? I’m open to all sug-
geions.
Ju one final note about traveling: Never
forget that public libraries all over the world
usually have computers available to let you pick
up your e-mail and send messages, etc. We’ve
done research and answered our problems in
many places, both in the US and abroad. The
mo fun comes when you try to get used to a
keyboard in a foreign language. Iceland was the
be with at lea seven extra keys, but even in
England it was a challenge to find the @ key. 0
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Drag-and-drop
disk-image creation:
Using Disk Utility
(/Applications/
Utilities), you can
create a disk image
– a sort of virtual hard
drive – from any
folder in OS X. I use
disk images for quite
a few things: Classic
lives on a com-
pressed disk image
on my Mac. I make
disk images out of
game CDs – you can
play some, but not
all, games with the
disk image mounted
instead of having
the original CD in the
drive. I also keep a
FileMaker Pro data-
base of passwords
and other sensitive
information on an
encrypted disk image,
which I can travel
with, with some
degree of security.
Want to avoid the
tedious process of
opening Disk Utility,
selecting Image:
New: Image from
Folder, and then navi-
gating to the folder
you want to turn into
a disk image? You
can. Drag-and-drop
disk-image creation
disappeared from
OS X 10.3 but quietly
returned to OS X
10.4.
Now, just drag
your folder onto the
Disk Utility applica-
tion icon – whether
it’s in the Dock, the
Finder, or the Finder’s
sidebar or toolbar.
Disk Utility will
launch, displaying
the New Image From
Folder dialog box.
Select an image
format (options
include Compressed
and Read-Only), and
then decide whether
you’d like to encrypt
the image so only you
can open it. That’s it!
–Rob Griffiths
Kirk McElhearn
George Canellis
gwc11713@optonline.
net
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