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hi,
Is there anyway to speed up an automator quickaction sequence.
It take 10 seconds plus after I hit the assigned keyboard shortcut key for the quickaction to start the sequence, which is absolutely ridiculous, there is just no way the mac needs that much time to understand that the shortcut means the launch of the sequence.
What am I doing wrong?
thanks
iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.15
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What Qhickaction sequence are you referring to? Include a screenshot of the Automator window.
What are you trying to accomplish with it? Where are the files located that you're trying to affect (if that's the case)? What Mac model do you have? How much RAM? What type of drive? Give us something to work with.
Boot into Safe Mode (How to use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support) by booting with the Shift key held down and verify that the Screenshot setting are what you want and then test the Automator action. Reboot normally and test again.
NOTE: Safe Mode boot can take up to 10 minutes as it's doing the following;
• Verifies your startup disk and attempts to repair directory issues, if needed
• Loads only required kernel extensions (prevents 3rd party extensions from loading)
• Prevents Startup Items and Login Items from opening automatically
• Disables user-installed fonts
• Deletes font caches, kernel cache, and other system cache files
ok well good news and bad news
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Thanks again... I am reluctant to say that your responses 'solved my question' because I am not sure that someone else would see the same results that seem to be unrelated, but I am happy to do so, if you somehow benefit from that... let me know
Hi thanks for your response and please accept my apologies for the delay in getting back to you. I have included a snapshot of the sequence. I am on Catalina 10.15.7 - The convert to TXT functionality is provided by FineReader 12
Basically my 2 problems are:
1- for the screenshot pop-up to finally show up, it takes easily 10-15s plus
2- I don't need the screenshot pop-up to begin with as it provides zero value, I would much rather have it go directly to crosshair (I started another thread for that particular problem as I thought the issues were not related)
Thanks very much for your time
You can change the timing of the screenshot in it's Settings:
It will take some time. I have it set to None but it still takes about 5 seconds for it to appear. However, if you unselect the Show Floating Thumbnail option the appearance of the screenshot on the Desktop is almost immediate.
wow ok... I think I see my first problem right there, how can I see the 'Settings' you have shown on your screenshot, I have none of that... I have tried to go through all the automator menus and right click everything to no avail... if I could just figure out how to see these settings, you probably made my day right there.
thanks again
actually, it's now back to super slow mode... in fact so slow that the 2 second 'pause' I included in the workflow to ensure that the textedit file was indeed open, is not sufficient... (I had included 1 second in the past, and that worked for a little while... should I just put 3000000s to be on the safe side... this is just ridiculous... I mean we ARE in 2020, no?)
there is definitely something wrong here, thanks for any help
Those settings are for the Screenshot app that located in the Applications/Utilities folder. Go there and double click on the app and you'll get the lower menu in my screenshot.
automator quickaction speed
