Copie automatique dans un dossier daté

[verdethibault]

J’ai actuellement un raccourci qui copie un fichier vers un autre dossier. Je voudrais le modifier pour que la copie soit enregistrée dans le dossier source, à l’intérieur d’un sous-dossier créé automatiquement et nommé avec la date du jour. Si ce dossier existe déjà, il ne faut pas le recréer ni le supprimer, mais simplement y ajouter le fichier.

Copy le fichier "A JETER LORS DE LA GRAVURE" dans le meme repertoire.kmmacros (2.9 KB)

[Nige_S]

@verdethibault

I currently have a shortcut that copies a file to another folder. I would like to modify it so that the copy is saved in the source folder, inside a subfolder that is automatically created and named with the current date. If this folder already exists, it should not be recreated or deleted; the file should simply be added to it.

(Thanks, Google Translate!)

You need the current date. You can get that with the %ICUDateTime% Token in the format you want -- I suggest YYYY-MM-DD, the output today would be 2026-06-30, so that sorting folders by name will also sort them by their date:

%ICUDateTime%yyyy-MM-dd%

You need to make a folder -- that's the "New Folder" Action. You don't need to "Create Intermediates" as you are making the new folder inside one that already exists. And you know where to create it -- the "parent path" of selected file's folder, like you used in your uploaded macro.

The "New Folder" Action fails gracefully, the macro continuing, if a folder with that name already exists -- so you don't need to check first, just try and create the folder every time.

You then copy the selected file to the dated folder.

Putting that all together:

Copy Selected File to Today's-Date Folder.kmmacros (2.9 KB)

Before anyone leaps in with "You don't need those first two Actions, Nige! Evaluate the Tokens in the "Split" and "Create Folder" Actions." -- this macro is deliberately "defensive", limiting the chance of a mismatched date if triggered bang on midnight or the Finder selection changing during execution.

Hardly necessary here, but I'm trying to get better at doing things "properly"

[kevinb]

My attempt was similar to @Nige_S’s (but alternative solutions might include shell commands or other scripting).

Copy into dated subfolder．.kmmacros (5.5 KB)

Notes:

• If a file (as opposed to a folder) exists at the intended destination path, the macro will explain that and then cancel itself.
• The macro will fail if more than one file has been selected for the move. An improved version could make use of the For each path in Finder selection.

[Nige_S]

@kevinb

My attempt was similar to @Nige_S’s

Colour me surprised -- I couldn't understand how yours worked because you aren't providing a destination file name and, according to the Wiki:

Copy: copies a file or folder. You must specify a name and location for the copy.

...but it appears that if a name isn't provided it uses the current one. Neat!

[kevinb]

I’ve always just taken it for granted that the logic of copying and moving in KM would operate with the same logic as copying and moving in Unix.

[peternlewis]

You must supply the full file path of the file you are copying (name and location), and the destination, which is either a full file path to an existing directory with no matching file name in it (name is preserved), or the full path to a non-existent file in an existing directory (name provided by the destination path).