Change Tiger default Folder Action to parse all files in folder?

Question

I'd like to be able to use Automator and OSX Tigers Folder Actions to parse all files in a folder to an automator workflow, but it seems the default is that Folder Actions just pass the newest file added to a folder. Is it possible to modify the default applescript that says something like open_added to open_all? Sorry, not an applescripter so don't shout at me. What I'm trying to do is get automator to construct a variable URL from various txt files in a folder. I'm using the txt files as variables as Tigers Automator doesn't seem to be able to use variables or save and combine a result.

Answer 1

That is the way that folder actions work. You can edit the AppleScript wrapper that Automator makes for your folder action, though, since the folder action handler also returns an alias to the attached folder.
If you look in your user's *~/Library/Scripts/Folder Action Scripts* folder, the folder action script for your workflow looks something like this:
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on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items
tell application "path:to:your:workflow.app"
open added_items
end tell
end adding folder items to
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By changing the line open added_items to open {this_folder}, the script will pass the folder instead of the files, so you can then use that in your workflow (e.g. *Get Folder Contents*, etc).