Hi, I am trying to setup a hot folder (watched folder that runs folder script to start a workflow). That works great when using it locally. But when this folder is shared in the network and an other user is sending his images to this folder, I got error messages, that image is broken and output can not be written. I suppose it’s a problem of file rights, because the right still belong to the user that created the images. And since Retrobatch is started by a user who has no rights on the images, nothing happens…
Running on 14.7.3 (23H417) Sonoma
I would really appreciate any help how to get this running.
Thanks a lot!
The first is that RB doesn’t have the ability to read the image at all, and that’s causing issues. If it’s a permissions problem, then that’ll have to be fixed on the shared server.
The more likely problem is that the hot folder is “firing” before the image is done writing (and since it’s not your computer writing the image, it doesn’t know when to be done). So you’ll need to add some sort of delay before you’re reading in the images.
How are you running the workflow? Are you using Folder Action Scripts from the Finder? If so, you could add a delay 5 at the top of your AppleScript before running the RB workflow.