I also accept guest blog posts about Mac automation. You are encouraged to send your own automation question to me, and if I can answer it, I will may post your question and my response as a blog post for which other readers may find useful. This is called mapping one application to another. Hazel runs that script when the specified file is added to the assigned folder. Next, assign the Hazel trigger a name, set the rules for the trigger, and then select Run AppleScript from the drop-down under “Do the following to the matched file or folder.” Where it says “embedded script,” click on the Edit script button and paste the KM script in there.

Now open Hazel, and add the folder you want to trigger the action. Grab the scrip by clicking the “Or by script” under the Trigger part of the macro. In order to do this, you will first need the AppleScript script for the KM action. The following instructions assume that you have a basic understanding of how Hazel works. This folder action in turn can fire the Keyboard Maestro action we created. Using Hazel, you set up a folder action that fires when a particular file is added to a folder. The automation if used to fullest extent, will trigger the actions without you have to do anything else. That’s it for this Keyboard Maestro workflow. If you plan to have the email sent immediately, then you should test the action to make sure everything is set up properly.

In the email action, fill in the appropriate information, and select to have to have the email sent immediately after the folder trigger occurs, or to open the email in Mail. In the macro editor, you do a search for “Send a Mail” or click on the Notifications folder inside of Actions to locate it. The second part of the action is to send a preset email when a folder is added to the specified folder. Keyboard Maestro contains an action for just that purpose.

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