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. Doing More with Automator The beauty of Automator is that it's not a static, this-or-nothing program: it's a versatile, expandable tool with ever-increasing potential. | . Doing More with Automator The beauty of Automator is that it s not a static this-or-nothing program it s a versatile expandable tool with ever-increasing potential. There are two particular ways to increase Automator s power beyond using the factory-installed actions adding more actions yourself and using the new Watch Me Do feature. . Getting More Action s Automator comes with dozens of actions but you re bound eventually to find yourself wishing that there were a few more. Perhaps you d like some Automator actions to control non-Apple programs like Photoshop or you d just like to have a few extra actions to control Mac OS X itself. Fortunately Automator can handle actions written by non-Apple programmers too. Just visit any of the Web sites devoted to Automator actions like or and download any actions you d like. If the action s programmers did their jobs right you can just download the action run the installer and sit back and watch as Mac OS X unpacks copies and installs the action automatically. The next time you open Automator the new action will be listed in the correct folder. If on the other hand the action s programmer did not create a self-installing action you may have to manually double-click the .dmg .sit or .zip file that you downloaded. Inside the folder or disk image that results you should find a file ending in .action. Drag that file into either your Home Library Automatorfolder to install the action for use under only your account or your Library Automator folder to install the action for all users on your Mac . In either case if this is the first time you re installing an Automator action by hand you may have to create the folder yourself. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION Checking a Workflow s Progress Some of these actions take their sweet time. Is there some progress bar that will tell me how far along my workflow is Actually Automator provides two ways to check on the status of .

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