FileUtils 1.5
Added script actions to execute your own custom scripts (with selected files as input arguments and optional textual output). FileUtils can execute UNIX scripts/binaries, AppleScript scripts and Automator workflows.
I’ve been using FastScripts for running scripts on the Finder selection, because I already use it for running scripts in other apps. However, one benefit of using FileUtils for this is that your script can be simpler—the selection is passed in automatically—and the same script can also be executed directly from Terminal.
There is an unfortunate limitation:
FileUtils (or any other Finder Sync extension, for what it matters) related menu commands in Finder’s contextual and toolbar item menus cannot be shown for folders, which are locations for some syncing services. These include iCloud Drive, as well as some major cloud services providers, like Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive, Synology Drive and there may be others I’m not aware of. And if you decided to sync your ~/Desktop and ~/Documents folders in iCloud, this apples to them as well. The reason for this limitation is all those (Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive and Google Drive in the recent versions of their desktop applications) use Apple’s technology/API called File Provider Extension and this technology collides with the older Finder Sync technology/API if applied to a same folder and the newer technology takes the precedence. The new technology doesn’t offer what it takes to implement FileUtils’ current feature set, but even if it had, that wouldn’t solve the problem (essentially only one File Provider Extension can operate on a particular folder).
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Fortunately, you can still use FileUtils provided Finder Services with those syncing folders and execute FileUtils operations on them that way.
But the static system services don’t work with a dynamic list of user-provided scripts.
Previously:
