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Looking for someone to create an automated plug-in / script to export photos.

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mcschlotz

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Classic 8.2
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  1. macOS 10.14 Mojave
Scenario:
I currently have 32 smart collections.
  • For each one I manually select all the photos
  • go the Export,
  • select the same export preset and populate the 'Put in Subfolder' section with the smart collection name
  • hit Export
  • if there are existing files, I select Skip

I'm looking for someone to write an automation that when executed, each of the 32 smart collections will be exported per the above sequence. Ideally I should be able to input and/or edit the smart collections names in the script which it will retain for future use.

Anybody know of someone willing to do this?

Matt
 
I'd just use Publish Services for that. Set them up once and then just hit the publish button whenever changes have been made in any of the smart collections.
 
I'd just use Publish Services for that. Set them up once and then just hit the publish button whenever changes have been made in any of the smart collections.
Thanks for the idea. Thought it might work but it ran into problems. There seems to be two issues with this approach. The biggest of which is if you create a set with the smart folders they ALL will only get published to one location - no way to change it from what I can see. Each smart folder must be published to its own separate location. To get around that limitation you could create multiple Hard Drive services (one for each smart collection) but there is no way I can detect to tell them all to publish with one button. Instead you have to go through and click on publish in each one of them which puts me back into another manual process having to do many clicks to get all 32 smart folders done.

Still looking for someone interested in creating an automated script.
 
BINGO... good old Jeffery Friedl has the solution with his Folder Publisher Plug-in. Takes some configuration but it does exactly what I was searching for.
 
Well, I was just about to suggest Jeffrey's Collection Publisher plug-in, which may be even better (as you'd only need to "export" changed/new images, and you can control what constitutes a change). I think, once setup correctly, a single click will publish all the smart collections.
 
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