Feature Request: Bundle Format for KM Macros

[Tom]

@nikivi

Just want to say that I would personally hate it being put into ~/Documents as I use Documents for other things and I want it to be clean of app configurations and scripts.

I don’t like that either, for the exactly same reasons.

But keep in mind that —usually— if a program puts a resources folder into your ~/Documents you can replace it by a symlink (or by an Alias) of the same name and move the actual folder to the location of your choice (e.g. ~/Scripts).

So, presuming that this also works with KM, the ~/Documents location wouldn’t be a problem.

[peternlewis]

@JMichaelTX

Please don't store the scripts or resources in the ~/Library folder. They are much harder to find and search there, and are not easily found by a macOS Spotlight search. I'd suggest:
~/Documents/Keyboard Maestro/Scripts

I can’t put things in the Documents folder. The Documents folder is designated to be under the user’s control, not forced by an application.

@iNik

Secondly, if macros were not in a giant file but were instead discrete items in the Finder, that would give us some potential to group stuff together without opaque package files.

This is unlikely to ever be the case. The format might change from XML to something else (SQLite perhaps), but not to individual files.

[JMichaelTX]

@peternlewis

I can’t put things in the Documents folder. The Documents folder is designated to be under the user’s control, not forced by an application.

hmmm... Somehow two of my apps were able to do this:

"Microsoft User Data" was created by MS Outlook 2011.

[peternlewis]

@JMichaelTX

hmmm... Somehow two of my apps were able to do this:

By “I can’t” I mean “I won't violate the designated purpose of the Documents folder”.

[mrpasini]

And thank you for that.

My Documents folder is littered with application folders that really have no business being there, some merely using it for logs.