Hey Richard,
Ha – Peter beat me to the punch...
This is simple, but it requires a little special knowledge.
The problem you're running into is that a string of directories cannot be created by Keyboard Maestro in one fell swoop.
If the intermediate directories do not exist then Keyboard Maestro will error – e.g. only the LAST directory in the chain can be created – and only if ALL the preceding directories already exist.
The trick to the task is to use the shell's mkdir command which can create intermediate directories (using the -p switch).
We could do this entire task in the shell, but let's use Keyboard Maestro functions for as much of it as we can.
First saving your $HOME-based (tilde) directory string to a variable.
Then expanding the tilde using a filter, which makes it easier to use in the following shell script.
Then a simple shell script that uses a Keyboard Maestro variable.
Voilà!
Here's the shell script one-liner:
mkdir -p $HOME/Pictures/$(date "+%Y/%m/%Y%m%d")
Ah, I wasn't paying attention when I cut-and-pasted the path string. You only need to employ ICUDateTime once:
~/Pictures/%ICUDateTime%yyyy/MM/yyyyMMd%
* AppleScript-Objective-C is also capable of making intermediate directories, although vanilla AppleScript cannot.
-Chris
Set Variable var to Text.kmmacros (2.5 KB)
