From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: February 11, 2010 9:50:50 AM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Re: Astro & Aperture

Tobias;

On 11-Feb-10, at 3:47 AM, stuppt wrote:

Hi,

First you need use the Finder to make "Aperture" the default application for opening a particular file type (like PNG or tiff or jpeg etc.), as described here:

This procedure puts Astro IIDC in the background and makes the default app the active one each time you take a picture. This interfers if you want to take a series of pictures.

That is correct. Apple does that automatically when I send a message to open the file with the default application.

You never said anything about series of images, so I assumed you simply wanted to get the image into Aperture and then work on it.

A common workflow could be this one:

1) Taking pictures/movies with Astro IIDC

2) Opening the organizing software. Sorting/deleting/processing/archiving of the images.

Then you need to learn how to do Apple Scripting and learn about Apple's "WorkFlow" for the Finder and Aperture. The Finder can look for new items added to a folder and then send it to another app, which would be what you want to do.

I spent 10 minutes looking via google and came up with all this information and links.

This script:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/automator/aperturehotfolder.html

should do it, as it will monitor a folder and then tell aperture to import files.

Other similar  examples would be:

http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2008/01/01/watched-folders-tethering.html

or this (read the section "Use Folder Actions to create "watched" folders"):

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10329810-263.html

or this Apple document describing setting up a Watch Folder for for Aperture 2:

http://www.apple.com/pro/techniques/automator/

For general purpose ideas on what is possible see:

http://www.macosxautomation.com/automator/

http://www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/

So there are plenty of solutions without me re-writing any code at all.

Milton J. Aupperle