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Add Quick Actions to Finde in macOS Big Sur to open a folder in VS Code
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  • Open Automator
  • Choose Quick Action as the document type
  • Change Workflow receives current to files or folders in Finder.app
  • For Action, choose Open Finder items from the left hand sidebar
  • Change Open with to Visual Studio Code.app (find it in Other... )
  • For the Icon, change Image to "Choose..." and select the Visual Stuido Code app. It'll automatically pick the icon
  • Save it (Cmd+S) as something like "Open in VS Code"
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stevorr commented Feb 18, 2022

Very nice. Works great. Thank you!

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THANK YOU! I've tried to figure this out multiple times to no avail, so glad to have it finally working.

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