Save a document multiple places at once?

[dukebound85]

Is there a way to save a document at multiple locations at once? For those that will question my motive, as opposed to actually helping answer the question, I find that saving each location one at a time to be more time consuming as I would like and would be nice to be able to hit save, and be saved at locations I desire

Thanks

 

[GGJstudios]

I can see how this might be useful, but I don't know of any way that it's possible.

 

[dukebound85]

I can see how this might be useful, but I don't know of any way that it's possible.

for those interested, I sorta got what i wanted by making an automator script that asks for what directory, then copies that directory over to the other loaction

 

[GGJstudios]

for those interested, I sorta got what i wanted by making an automator script that asks for what directory, then copies that directory over to the other loaction

So it saves to one location, then copies the saved file to another location that you have to specify?

 

[dukebound85]

So it saves to one location, then copies the saved file to another location that you have to specify?

Yes, in automator, I selected application. Then I selected "Ask for finder items" where I specified where to first look (or the directory/files I want to save).

I then put the "copy finder items" below and select what directory I want to copy to.

So now every time I run the app, it will copy my directory I am saving my file to to the specified directory without me having to specify it each time

More or less a rudimentary syncing app for small scale

I work from a dropbox folder so the file is on multiple machines. However, dropbox will not back up that file in the sense if it gets screwed up, its screwed up on all devices when I access it. Nice to have a "separate copy" laying around where I back up as needed, in my case a thumb drive. Of course, I use time machine and CCC as well but nice to have it automated when I want for small drives like the thumb drive.

 

[dukebound85]

amazing

I have the same question and see I had asked this 10 years ago

Edit: Automator is still there to do this. Forgot about this

 

[millerj123]

amazing

I have the same question and see I had asked this 10 years ago

Edit: Automator is still there to do this. Forgot about this

Yeah, I wouldn't expect an application to do this, but a process in at least one of the saved locations using something to copy it once an update is made.

 

[BrianBaughn]

If the files need to be copied to the same multiple locations (folders) every time…a Folder Action can do that. Not sure if that's exactly what you built with Automator.

 

[prometheus12]

You can setup Hazel to do this

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