I need a macro that clicks the "Combine duplicates" in Photos for me. "Record" did not help me in making it. Any suggestions?
Use the Click Mouse at Found Image action.
To click relative to an image, you use the Mouse Click action, configure it to be relative to a found image, and take a screenshot of the desired area of the screen using Command-Control-Shift-4, and paste it into the image well on the action. The image has to be unique (which includes not being visible in the action if the image is small enough not to be shrunk in the image well) otherwise Keyboard Maestro will not know where to click. The Display option in the action will allow you to see where Keyboard Maestro is matching.
Hi Peter,
thanks for your quick reply.
I think we had this discussion earlier and I am having a deja vu: this business is above my pay grade.
While Keyboard Maestro is a wonderful and immensely versatile tool one has to admit that it is not made for the once in a while question „How about giving KM a try with this particular issue?“ I guess specialists can think of a lot of complex solutions and they will find a way to make them work. I am not one of them.
Do you know the Affinity suite? I wrote a feedback to Serif Ltd suggesting to include a „switch“ that would change the layout from „Professional“ to „Inexperienced“, thus offering features every skill level could handle. This might also be a way to facilitate the approach to KM. Serif did not react though.
Regards
Hartmut
This thing with Keyboard Maestro is that it is open-ended.
You can get great value out of Keyboard Maestro and never have a macro with more than one action in it. And that's just fine.
Or you can go down the rabbit hole and create a massive system of interconnected macros to run an entire business. And that's fine too.
Or anything in between.
Really with Keyboard Maestro, it is not so much that it is complicated (because at it's core, it is just triggers and actions and they are pretty easy to understand), it is that you can use it to solve complicated problems in complex ways, and there isn't any getting around that complexity (not until magic AI comes and solves all our problems anyway). If you want to do something complex, then you'll need to explain the complex process to Keyboard Maestro in order to get it done, and no amount of simplifying the interface is going to get around that.
So I always recommend to users, Start Simple. Create macros that are at the level you are comfortable with and get the value out of Keyboard Maestro there, and if you can build up your skills and create more complex macros to solve more complex challenges, great, but if not, it's still there helping you.
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