Recent/Favourites Folders

Originally this was started as an exercise to test some of the action statement modifications made in Yate v10.2. The actions allow you to create folders containing aliases to folders which can be displayed in the File Browser. The following actions are provided:

View Recent Folders in the File Browser

The action extracts all folders on the File>Open Recent menu (or associated toolbar item). Symbolic links to the extracted folders are created in:

~/Documents/Yate/Recent Items

Do not place anything else in the folder as it is recreated in its entirety each time the action is run. This is done so that items no longer on the recents menu are removed.

The folder will be displayed in the File Browser.

Add Selected Folders to Favourites

This action is used to add items to a favourites folder stored at:

~/Documents/Yate/Favourites

When the action is run a popup menu will appear containing Selected File's Folders and Dropped Folders.

When Selected File's Folders is chosen, the containing folder of every selected file will be added to the favourites.

When Dropped Folders is selected a panel is displayed to which you can drop folders you want to add. If you do not want to use the drop panel you can click on the System Panel button to display a standard Mac file selection panel. The View Folders button can be used to display a list of the folders you have already selected. In the displayed panel you can remove selected folders.

When you hit Continue (or Choose in the Mac file selection panel), the Display Favourites action will be called to display the folder.

Display Favourites

This action validates the contents of the favourites folder. All links where the destination no longer exists will automatically be removed. Do not place anything else in the folder as any item which is not a valid symbolic link or alias to a folder will be moved to the trash.

The favourites folder will be displayed in the File Browser. To remove a favourite, simply move it to the trash from the File Browser via the context menu.

Icons

If you're going to use the actions a lot it may be convenient to associate them with action toolbar icons. We've provided icons which you can associate with the toolbar items. The icons can be downloaded via the link at the end of this document.

In case you need a refresher course on how to associate the icons with the action, here it is:

• Select an action in the Action Manager.
• From the context menu select Set as Toolbar Action.
• From the displayed submenu select the number of the toolbar item that you want the action to be associated with. Note that items with a checkmark are already associated.
• The following panel will be displayed.

• You can supply alternate text and a tooltip of the toolbar to display.
• Click on the Configure icons gear to set the icons.

• The appropriate item will be selected. (green arrow)
• Drag the icon appropriate for the display mode (light or dark) to the target.
• Click on the icon next to Toggle light/dark.
• Drag the icon appropriate for the changed display mode (light or dark) to the target.
• Click on Apply
• Configure the toolbar to add the appropriate action button(s).

Content List

Actions:

Folder: Recent/Favourites Folders

View Recent Folders in the File Browser

Add Selected Folders to Favourites

Display Favourites

Requirements:

Yate v10.2

History:

Download actions

Download icons