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An applescript folder action that moves downloaded torrent files to a different directory.
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move-torrent-files-folder-action.applescript
on adding folder items to thisFolder after receiving added_items
mount volume "afp://user@host/share"
delay 1
repeat with addedFile in added_items
tell application "Finder"
if (the name of the addedFile ends with "torrent" or "nzb") then
display notification "Queueing " & (name of addedFile) & "."
try
tell application "Finder"
move addedFile to "spool" with replacing
delete addedFile
end tell
on error
display alert "Unable to move " & (name of i)
end try
end if
end tell
end repeat
end adding folder items to
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Oh cool. Thanks for sharing that! I’m going to dig in on that later. I’m still learning scripting, but have managed to make some pretty cool automations. Thanks for sharing this!

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