[DM-MUG] Automator Q

[Jon Thompson]

If the window is open, it is having to label, then update the Finder as to
the status of the label. If the window is closed, it does not have to do the
latter step, which is more time consuming than just setting a flag.

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Victoria L. Herring <VLH at herringlaw.com>wrote:

> Jon, your session Tuesday was very good and I learned alot and am
> testing my use of it now.  To start I was doing something very simple
> = finding all documents on the desktop and labelling them green.  I
> tested just doing aliases and that worked, so am now doing documents.
>
> I did Find Finder Items..[document kind] then Get Folder Contents,
> the folder being the Desktop, and then Label Finder Items [green] -
> it worked just fine but it did seem to take a long time.  All three
> steps worked fine and were fairly quick but the last one did take
> awhile.  It also didn't label some theings but maybe they aren't
> documents [.webloc and .fp7 filemaker clone] otherwise it worked as
> expected.
>
> I am now going to create a new dated folder on desktop and then move
> labeled items into it -- and probably schedule this so at the end of
> each day or several, all docs on desktop go there and then my job is
> the next AM to come in and file them where they go, which will take
> my own decision making and not Automator.
>
> So, why so slow on labelling?
> --
> Victoria L. Herring, Des Moines, Iowa. Blogs:
> http://blog.JourneyZing.com  [photography];
> http://www.herringlaw.com  [civilrights/discrimination];
> http://victorialherring.typepad.com/serendipity/  [personal].
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