{"id":44315,"date":"2024-08-01T14:07:47","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T18:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=44315"},"modified":"2024-08-01T14:07:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T18:07:47","slug":"contextmenu-1-4-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/01\/contextmenu-1-4-3\/","title":{"rendered":"ContextMenu 1.4.3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gingerbeardman.com\/2024\/07\/30\/taking-command-of-the-context-menu-in-macos\/\">Matt Sephton<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/blog.gingerbeardman.com\/2024\/07\/30\/taking-command-of-the-context-menu-in-macos\/\">\n<p>Many years ago I found <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/context-menu\/id1236813619?mt=12\">ContextMenu<\/a> ($4.99) which solves all of the issues I have with the <em>Automator<\/em> approach [to adding file commands to Finder&rsquo;s contextual menu]. There&rsquo;s also a free version, <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/gb\/app\/context-menu-lite\/id1261373706?mt=12\">ContextMenu Lite<\/a>, that supports up to 3 actions to give you a taste of the good stuff.<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>Submenu is optional<\/li>\n  <li>Apply to multiple types (files or directories; can be as granular as file extension)<\/li>\n  <li>Show output (sometimes you want to see the results of the command)<\/li>\n  <li>Confirmation before running (if it&rsquo;s a potentially dangerous operation)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/gingerbeardman\/contextmenu-actions\">my repo<\/a> of shared actions. Inside each <code class=\"language-plaintext highlighter-rouge\">.cmaction<\/code> file is a <code class=\"language-plaintext highlighter-rouge\">main.sh<\/code> file which contains the command that you can use in <em>Automator<\/em> if you&rsquo;d like.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/01\/fileutils-1-0-1\/\">FileUtils 1.0.1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/14\/service-station-1-0\/\">Service Station 1.0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/26\/custom-icons-for-quick-actions\/\">Custom Icons for Quick Actions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Sephton: 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&rsquo;s contextual menu]. There&rsquo;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-08-01T18:07:52Z","apple_news_api_id":"42c49cc0-d3c9-404a-aeda-f7dcfb45ff60","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-08-01T18:07:52Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AQsScwNPJQEqu2vfc-0X_YA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1040,458,30,32,2385],"class_list":["post-44315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-automator","tag-finder","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-14-sonoma"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44316,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44315\/revisions\/44316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}