If you've been manually performing a task on your Mac over and over, you can automate it with Automator and use iCal to schedule when you want the task to run. Apple includes a free copy of Automator ...

Automator's great for streamlining some of the repetitive things you do each day on your Mac. With Automator, you can create your own custom plugins for the Services menu, Folder Action workflows that ...

Apple has a long history of making the automation of repetitive tasks easier on the rest of us. Beginning with HyperCard and AppleScript, and now with Automator, Apple has created custom programs to ...

Apple’s built-in automation tool, Automator (in /Applications), is capable of performing wondrous feats, yet far too many people ignore it—believing their work wouldn’t benefit from automation or that ...

Automator is the often-overlooked Mac OS X software that is hiding away in your Applications folder. Many people just glance over this unassuming robotic icon, unaware of the power it holds. Have you ...

Since Apple is introducing Shortcuts to macOS Monterey in the fall, it may be worth backing up all of your Automator workflows before it lands. Here's how to make a copy of your automations. Shortcuts ...

Automator's great for streamlining time consuming and repetitive tasks on your Mac. It's easy. Just launch it, find a few actions, and string them together to form a workflow. Then, run your workflow ...

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The Automator application in OS X is a feature that many people use to modify documents in a folder, or perform other routine actions such as synchronizing items in a folder with those in another ...

Note: This requires at least one Mac to work. MacRumors has a great guide on this process. Essentially, you use the great command line tool rsync to synchronize two iTunes libraries. That's a manual ...