Send file via email

[Bobby_Joe]

I would like to make a macro that sends the files in the Finder's selection to someone via mail. How can I do this? (I know I probably need to use the actions below).

[peternlewis]

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Working with the Finder Selection

In Keyboard Maestro, you work with the Finder Selection by using the For Each action to iterate over the selected files. From there, you can do whatever you would like with the files using the various file actions, or by processing with a script or other means. There is a smart action in the acton selector for For Each Path in the Finder Selection, which is simply a For Each action, preset to iterate through the Finder Selection collection. You can put whatever actions you like within that ac…

Basically, you loop through the finder selection (since more than one thing might be selected) and send email for each one using the variable that holds the path to the file.

[MacSpanner]

what about if I want to send multiple files in a single email. Can that be done?

[peternlewis]

@MacSpanner

what about if I want to send multiple files in a single email. Can that be done?

Not with the native Keyboard Maestro Send Mail Message action.

[MacSpanner]

This seems to do the job…Select files first then execute the Macro..

JS