Moving Files when Right Clicking

Question

Hello,
I've been searching on the forums, and haven't been able to get an answer to what I am trying to accomplish.
I'd like to be able to right click any file of my choice, and be ale to move it to a set of folders (Pictures, Movies, External Drives, etc). How to I go about adding these folders to the menu upon right clicking any file? (For example if you right click, you have an option to move to the trash, I'd like to add additional locations to move a file to).
Thanks for your help in advance!
Tom

Answer 1

Automator actions don't quite work in that way. You can select from any of the currently available variables when editing the Automator window, but you need to specifically define a variable to use in any particular action when running the workflow. You can (sort of) build a custom list, but depending on the number of locations it might be cumbersome.
1) Set Value of Variable {Variable: Original Items} -- save the original selection
2) Get Specified Finder Items (ignore input) -- drag all of your specific locations to the window
3) Choose from List -- select one of the locations (it will only use the first one)
4) Set Value of Variable {Variable: Location} -- save for later
5) Get Value of Variable {Variable: Original Items} (ignore input) -- get the original selection back
6) Move Finder Items {To: (drag Location variable here)}
You can also use the "Show this action when the workflow runs" on the move action to include the normal selection dialog - you will notice, however, that the only variable that you can choose from is the one you initially set in the action (in my example, that is the Location variable).
After all of that, unless you only have a few locations that you use, it will probably be easier to just use the selection dialog. Of course, there is always AppleScript (especially to replace the Choose from List action to something that only allows one choice).