Copy items

Hi every one!
First of hall i´ve just started with this automator stuff.
Every week i need to copy some files from a X to Y folder. This is easy but the difficult part is that in the folder X i have a lot of files and i just want to copy some from a BBEdit list.
From the start: i have a BBEdit file with the name of the files that i want to copy from a folder to another folder.
Is there a way to do it?

Greetings from Portugal!

P.S. Attachment of the BBEdit file (each line is a file)

Hi there and welcome,

the BBEdit file isn't attached ?

Try and attach the file, and we'll see what we can do.

regards

Ric

Hi Ric!
I´m trying to attach the BBEdit file again, don´t know what went wrong.
Regards

Luis Santos

Hi there,

this is really better suited to AppleScript...

But here's one way of doing it in Automator.

The text file you have supplied needs to have 'the path' added to each filename otherwise this won't work...this coulb be done in BBedit or Automator.

I am not sure where you are getting the file list from so you will have to 'investigate' that further.

You need the text file to have the complete path...

ie

/Users/computer/Desktop/AnimalWorld/IMG_6913.CR2
/Users/computer/Desktop/AnimalWorld/IMG_6912.CR2
/Users/computer/Desktop/AnimalWorld/IMG_6911.CR2
/Users/computer/Desktop/AnimalWorld/IMG_6910.CR2
/Users/computer/Desktop/AnimalWorld/IMG_6909.CR2
/Users/computer/Desktop/AnimalWorld/IMG_6908.CR2

Once your text file is correct...download this Automator Action.

Load File List

Then in Automator...

Step 1: Load File List (your BBedit file)

Step 2: Copy Finder items (select your 'y' folder)



Regards

Ric

O.K. Ric first of all, thank you very much for helping me with this stuff.
I´m going to try with the help you gave me to put all of this working, so i tell you if it works very soon. Many thanks.
Luis

No problem,

we're here to help.

regards

Ric