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automator to open a folder of files

I'm trying to set up a kiosk to display students' work. I have movies and presentations. The movies and presentations are set to play on opening.

I would like to put these in a folder and have automator open each file and play it, then loop through them again. I've been able to get some of this set up, but the problem I'm now having is that Automator tries to open everything at once, instead of waiting for the current file to finish running before opening the next file.

My workflow is:

Get Specified Finder Items (I chose a folder of multimedia files)
Get Folder Contents
Open Finder Items (Open with Default Application)
Loop

I think the 3rd step is trying to open everything at once.
I'm in 10.5.8

DCJ

iMac (Al - Intel) Core 2 duo, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Nov 7, 2010 9:37 PM

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automator to open a folder of files

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