> On Aug 24, 2025, at 12:56 PM, Jack Jansen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the positive news!
Glad that I could share a small sliver of a silver lining :)
> I really loved OSA at the time, and I’ve used it extensively.
>
> But the last two things I wanted to automate failed utterly. Photos still has
> something of a dictionary, but you can do little more than control a slide
> show. No way to do usable searches (like “any photo taken in such-and-such an
> area in December”). And Mainstage has no dictionary at all (and _that_ would
> be an absolutely wonderful app to control). Logic Pro has a dictionary but it
> allows little more than closing a window.
Yeah, some dictionaries are quite bad, and it's extremely heavily app
dependent. It's fair to say that *most* apps don't have very good support.
But there are still useful things to do. Photos search is a bummer, *but*, it's
still easier to hoover up all the .date_() datetimes and .location() latlongs
than to muck about in Photos' SQLite database itself, or to try to write
against the equally-useless PhotoKit for bulk selection. And search does do…
something? I can search for people's names, or dates in US-format M/D/YY, and I
can at least get *one* filter mostly reliably.
But mac automation has always been kinda like this, since the very beginning.
Just count yourself lucky you don't need to use COM :).
> Since then I’ve sort-of given up on it. But I’ll at least try again if I want
> to automate something.
It's rarely worth trying hard to make something work; either it's there or it's
not.
> Jack
Here's hoping I don't look very silly after Tahoe gets released, since I
haven't tried the betas yet…
-g
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