Trigger automator script when new file created

I want to create an automator script that will recognise when a new file is created (with a name that matches a particular pattern and in a certain directory) and mail that file to a predefined address. Is that possible?

yes, this is possible with a folder action. you can attach a folder action to the folder in question. it will watch this folder for new files and trigger when a new file is added. you can create an automator workflow and save it as a folder action plugin.

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File Sharing Permissions Problem When NEW Files Created

My wife & I have a home office network setup for our business, and are having trouble with shared files over the network. We're both on Macs, and all of our client files reside on an internal hard drive in my Mac Pro. I've set her up as a "Sharing Only" user on my computer (which matches the username & password of her account on her iMac), and have properly setup file sharing in both the System Preferences, and in the directory itself that we want shared. I've also applied the permissions to all files & folders below the main folder, and she can view, open and save whatever she needs and it works great.
*Here's where the problem comes in...* If either of us create a NEW file or folder, the other person doesn't have WRITE access to it (we can browse and open it fine). The second I go to update a file she created, it won't let me over-write it, and I have to go into the permissions for that specific file and give myself Read/Write access. I've experimented with "Groups", and assigned both of us a special group, and applied that group access to that directory, but it doesn't make any difference when a NEW file or folder is created - it doesn't copy the parent directory permissions to itself, it makes one of us the owner, and nobody else has access.
Is there any way around this? We're both constantly creating new files, and it really hampers our workflow to have to keep re-applying file permissions every time one of us creates something new. Ideally, any new files created within that main client folder would automatically have the same permissions as the parent directory. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!!

Here's how to do this with Access Control Lists.
1) Go to System Preferences -> Accounts. Unlock the padlock. Click the + button. Make a new group. Call this group "sharing" for the purposes of this exercise. Add the users you want to the group.
2) Make a new empty folder in /Users/Shared. Call it "sharefolder".
3) Log in to an admin account and paste all three of these lines at once into Terminal:
sudo chmod +a "sharing allow delete,chown,list,search,add_file,\
addsubdirectory,delete_child,file_inherit,directoryinherit" \
/Users/Shared/sharefolder
4) From now on, any files you create or copy to the sharefolder or to any of its subfolders will inherit read+write permission for all users in the group. If you have any existing files that you want to move into the sharefolder, a simple move by drag & drop won't cause the permissions to propagate. you need to hold down the option key while dragging them in. This will copy them over, ensuring that the ACL permission is properly inherited.
One other caveat: Files created by a small number of OS X apps won't inherit the permissions properly if saved directly into the ACL folder hierarchy. TextEdit is one such app. Save TextEdit files in a temporary location first, and then copy them in. Then they will have the correct permissions.

Is it possible to trigger a script when a file is opened.

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Thanks for the follow up. I think the real solution is training our artists to pay more attention to their work. Some of our artists were saving their files in RGB color mode instead of CMYK which was obviously causing color problems. I was wanting a script to check the color mode of each file upon 'open' and notify them if it was in RGB, but truthfully they should be paying more attention and catch the problem before the art is sent to production. A work-around like that wouldn't solve the real problem anyway.
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Need a perl script which monitors a network folder and sends email when new files/folders arrived...

I need a perl script (or something else better) which monitors a network folder and sends email when new files/folders arrived. I tried it in Automator but failed.
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Yes. I tried it. But whenever I restart m Mac, the watch folder doesn't work until I reconnect to network or run the Automator... I need a simple system that automatically connects to the network and monitor the folder, even I restart the Mac.
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We have OS X set up in Standard configuration.
We have one workgroup. When someone creates a new file in this workgroup, it is saved with permissions of "Username: Read/write", "Workgroup: read only", "Everyone: read only".
How do I change this to something sane? (i.e. Username: Read/write, Workgroup: Read/write, Everyone: No access)
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+When someone creates a new file ... (it gets POSIX) permissions of "Username: Read/write", "(group): read only", "Everyone: read only".+
This is perfectly normal.
*Two Permission Models* First, you probably already know that Mac OS X uses two models for permissions when determining effective access for files and folders. The two models are Standard POSIX (UNIX) permissions and Access Control Lists (ACLs).
*POSIX Permissions* POSIX permissions are very simple, and have some limitations. They consist of three "fields": an owner field, a group field, and an everyone else field. (There's also a special permissions field, but we'll skip that for this discussion.) The POSIX owner is always a user; it cannot be a group. The POSIX group represents one group, and the everyone else field covers any user who is neither the owner nor a member of the chosen POSIX group.
POSIX uses three bits to describe the access returned for each field. There is a bit for read, one for write, and one for execute (for folders, this means traverse, or see contents). Thus, there are eight possible POSIX permission combinations:
*POSIX Access Type ................... Binary Bit Representation ........... Decimal Bit Representation*
No Access .......................................................... 000 ......................... 0
Execute Only ...................................................... 001 ......................... 1
Write Only .......................................................... 010 ......................... 2
Read Only .......................................................... 100 ......................... 4
Write & Execute (Drop Box folder)....................... 011 ......................... 3
Read & Execute (Read-only folder) ..................... 101 ......................... 5
Read & Write ...................................................... 110 ......................... 6
Read, Write, and Execute (Read/write folder)...... 111 ......................... 7
It's helpful to know these decimal representations, because they provide a quick shorthand for describing POSIX access. Typically, we use the decimal shorthand like this: (decimal bit representation of the POSIX special permissions field)(... of the POSIX owner field)(... for the group field)(... for the everyone field). Thus, a combination like owner read, write, and execute, group read & execute, and everyone else read & execute is 0755: Special permissions are 0 (000 binary), owner is 7 (111 binary - read, write, execute), group is 5 (101 - read and execute), and everyone is the same as group (101).
*How POSIX Access is Determined for a Connecting User* In determining POSIX access to a file or folder, a user can only be "given" the access of POSIX owner, POSIX group, or POSIX everyone. The system first checks to see if the connecting user is the POSIX owner; if so, the user gets the permission bits assigned to the owner field. Otherwise, the user's primary group is compared to the POSIX group assigned to the file or folder; if they match, the user is given POSIX group access. If that fails, then the POSIX group is queried for a list of member users to see if the connecting user is a member of that group; if so, the user is given POSIX group access. If all three fail, then the user is given access assigned to everyone else.
*How POSIX Permissions are Set for Newly-Created Files and Folders* When new files or folders are created within a parent, the following determines their POSIX permissions:
1. The POSIX owner is the user who creates the file or folder.
2. The POSIX group is set to the group of the folder's parent.
3. POSIX permission bits (owner, group, everyone else) are set by the umask. The umask is 0022 by default, so default POSIX bits are 0755 (0644 for files) - owner read, write, group read, everyone read.
If the POSIX permissions were the extent of the permissions model, then we would have to either modify the umask (on each client) or adjust the server's behavior via an Inherit Permissions scheme. The first option is insecure, because you cannot just modify the umask for a particular server's share point - it would apply system-wide on the client computer, even for local files. The Inherit Permissions via POSIX was the method used by Mac OS X Server 10.3 and earlier.
Fortunately, you don't have to do either. That's where ACLs come in to play:
*ACL Permission Model* Access Control lists are just what you'd expect: a list of entries that describe what a user or group can or cannot do. Unlike POSIX, you can have a virtually unlimited number of ACL entries (or ACEs). Each ACE can apply to just a single user or a whole group of users. ACLs support two modes of operation, Allow or Deny, along with 24 unique controls arranged in four categories:
*Category ... Controls for Files Only ....... Folders Only .......................................................... Files & Folders*
Read ............... read and execute .............. list and search ........................................... readsecurity, readattr, readextattr
Write ............... write and append .............. delete_child, add_file, add_subdirectory .... delete, writeattr, writeextattr
Administer ............................................................................... ...................................... chown & writesecurity
Inherit ............ file_inherit ......................... directory_inherit, limit_inherit .................... only_inherit
*How ACL Access is Determined for a Connecting User* Since each ACL entry can be either Allow or Deny, the system makes two "tallies" for the connecting user: one for applicable Allow ACEs and one for applicable Deny ACEs. An ACE applies to a connecting user only if the ACE is specifically for that user or if the user is a member of the group to which the ACE applies. The tallies are created by adding all applicable ACEs for each Allow/Deny category. Thus, the ACLs return two things: a list of deny controls and a list of allow controls.
*How ACLs are Inherited to Newly-Created Files and Folders* When new files or folders are created within a parent, the following determines their ACL permissions:
1. If the file_inherit control is part of any listed ACE, that ACE is applied to newly-created files therein.
2. If the directory_inherit control is part of any listed ACE, that ACE is applied to newly-created folders.
*How ACLs and POSIX Permissions Work Together* The access level returned from POSIX and the two ACL tallies are combined in the following way to determine the effective permissions:
*Effective Permissions = (POSIX Access) + (ACL Allow tallies) - (ACL Deny tallies)*
For each unique connecting user, the effective permissions will be calculated in the previous way.
*Solving Your Problem* You can easily use effective permissions to your advantage to solve your problem. Simply enable ACLs on the volume that houses your troublesome share point, and add a new ACL entry for the desired workgroup, granting it all read, write, and inherit controls. This way, when users create new items in the share point, they automatically inherit that ACE. You'll also have to propagate permissions for all items that are already inside of the share point after you've added the ACE.
Here's an easy way to do both with an ACE granting writers_group read/write/inheritance on some share point using chmod form the command-line:
sudo chmod -R +a "writers_group allow readattr,readextattr,readsecurity,list,search,read,execute,\
writeattr,writeextattr,delete,deletechild,add_file,addsubdirectory,write,append,\
fileinherit,directoryinherit" /path/to/share_point
Hope this helps!
--Gerrit
Message was edited by: Gerrit DeWitt

When Photoshop CS6 is invoked from PSE 11 Organizer why is a new file created with _edited-1 appende

I just converted a large PSE 10 catalog to work with a downloaded trial version of PSE 11. When I brought up the Organizer and clicked on the Editor button I selected Photoshop CS 6. At that point the Organizer created an image stack with a new file on the top of the stack that had a file name that was the original file name with "_edited-1" appended to the end of it. Is there any way to avoid this? For me it is going to create a tedious step to delete the original file and rename the new file after editing. For probably 98% of my editing I will use only the Adobe Camera Raw editor on my imported raw files (Nikon's .nef). ACR puts the editing data in a sidecar .xmp file so there's no need to protect the original file from be mistakenly replaced by an edited version.

That's not a new behaviour : in old versions choosing the external editor did create a copy in a version set.
I don't have CS6, so I can't be specific, but I wonder why you should open CS6 if most of your images can be edited in ACR. For them, you only need to click 'Done' and that saves the edits in the xmp sidecar file. I guess most of the remaining files could be processed in the PSE11 editor and saved in any image format (jpeg, tiff, psd...). Only a minority would have to be processed in CS6***, and in that case, creating a new copy in a version set seems quite reasonable.
Edit:
*** in CS6 or the full ACR version of CS6. In my case, it's very rare that I need the other tabs in ACR.

Trigger a Mail when no file is placed

Hi Everyone,
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Hi
I m not sure wheter this will work or efficient.
Cant you use operating system command option ?
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I have a very simple automator script set up in Snow Leopard:
Find Video files in "Downloads" folder that are larger than 50 MB
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