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I seem to encounter this problem quite often. I am running Switch 2021 on a Mac. The Mac is iMac, late 2013 running OS 10.15.7 Catalina. I have many flows that copy jobs to a NAS server mounted on the Mac via smb share. Often my flows work well. But at random times, the files or folders simply will ...

I have been working with Switch for a little while and I have a long way to go to learn all it can do. I have been tasked with setting up flows to increase efficiency. Of course with Switch it is all about hotfolders. I have set up several flows and the flow start points are often hot folders on a s...

Thank you for this. As it turns out, I abandoned the dummy file idea. I thought of using Rename job to get a good text string, then follow it with another Rename job to restore the original file name. Then after doing that, I thought, why not just let the file keep the new name, no need to restore t...

I worked on this for a little while, and it looks like the Search option can grab text based on the period, and not include the period: Search="[^.]{1,}" This works, but not all the time. If the value was Mechanical Engineering Inc. It returns Mechanical Engineering Inc But, if it is J.B. ...

I feel like there is an easy way to do this that I cannot figure out. I am using XML Pickup element. In subsequent flow elements I access the desired Metadata value using Metadata:Text:Path. I need a way to drop periods from the value as it is returned. Isn't there a way to use regular expressions t...

Thank you for this! Very helpful.

I have an XML pickup flow set up that accepts a folder containing the XML and the asset. This is a Submit Hierarchy flow with target folder level and name. The way it works now, I have a folder containing the XML. I wait a while for the artwork, indefinitely, sometimes for days. When I get it, I put...

Thank you this is a huge help.

This is a follow up to a question I asked earlier. I know I can filter out PDFs on the top level of a folder. If I ungroup, I can direct files from the top level using [Job.PrivateData:Key="<Ungroup>.FilePath"] Does Not Match .+ (RegExp) From there I filter out PDFs. So if the job has thre...

Thank you this was very helpful.

I hope I can explain this. What I want is to ungroup a job folder, but preserve folders and files below the first level. The reason I need this. I built a flow to preflight PDFs. The job was a folder with PDFs in it, and then more subfolders. When I ungrouped the job, it preflighted the PDFs, but it...

Thank you both for your assistance. Stupid me, didn't realize how the file filters work. Now I know – if a folder contains an InDesign file on level 1, it will qualify and pass on. I will look into the Folder app you mention. I had an interesting condition last week. A zip file. Once unzipped, it wa...

Please forgive me I am struggling to learn Switch. When I submit an InDesign folder package to the InDesign flow element it works great. My question is: how do I identify a folder as an InDesign package before it goes to the InDesign flow element? I know the folder contents are on level 1: InDesign ...

Please bear with me I am still learning. I have a question about Set Hierarchy Path, where the folder name is coming from an XML. I am running Switch Fall 2020 on iMac, which is running 10.15.7. The flow starts with XML pickup, the metadata is the asset. Set Hierarchy Path pulls a text string from t...