ContextMenu 1.4.3
Many years ago I found ContextMenu ($4.99) which solves all of the issues I have with the Automator approach [to adding file commands to Finder’s contextual menu]. There’s also a free version, ContextMenu Lite, that supports up to 3 actions to give you a taste of the good stuff.
- Submenu is optional
- Apply to multiple types (files or directories; can be as granular as file extension)
- Show output (sometimes you want to see the results of the command)
- Confirmation before running (if it’s a potentially dangerous operation)
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Here’s my repo of shared actions. Inside each
.cmactionfile is amain.shfile which contains the command that you can use in Automator if you’d like.
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Hey, thanks for highlighting this! Sent me down into a nice little rabbit warren, some familiar and some not, but the crucial takeaway is this: don't forget that with just a tiny bit of effort that it might not otherwise occur to you to put in, you can transform Finder into a useful tool to much more comfortably and intuitively do things you'd normally reach instinctively for the Terminal to do instead, often more tediously, because you know, UNIX. It put me in mind of when I used to de-DRM my Audible content with ffmpeg and a "Folder Action", but there are ideas in here, particularly around turning clipboard text into a file, or making a script executable, or cleaning up zips after building them that are in retrospect so obvious that I should get into the habit of building more of them.
So yeah, cheers! :)
