Watch downloads folder for PDF's and open with preview

[Tom]

@skillet

I changed if "any of the following are true" to "all of the following are true"

This is important when you have more than one condition.

@skillet

For the previous macro to work the file can't already be in the folder because if you replace the file that is already there it doesn't trigger it as new

If you download a PDF that is already present in the Downloads folder it will be auto-renamed, like this:

That means that the Folder Watch macro will trigger.

If the PDF was removed and is then downloaded again, the Folder Watch macro will also trigger.

@skillet

Kind of scary to think of the dangerous things you could create with something like that. Close MS Word and remove all of my document files, yikes!

To make it even more scary set the trigger to “Preview Deactivates”. This way the PDF will be trashed when you switch from Preview to another application (even without quitting Preview). Your Downloads folder is now a read-once cache for PDFs

Btw, the Trash action does not really remove your files. As it is set in the macro it just moves the PDFs to the Trash, as the name suggests. To delete the PDFs set the action to “Delete” (popup menu).