Comments on: Use a Web Receipts Folder in Tiger

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By: dw

dw — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 21:51:31 +0000

What did he do? You can edit the system /Library/PDF Services/ web receipts workflow, or you can copy it into your own PDF Services folder.

1) Edit the web receipts workflow in Automator
2) Search for (in Automator) “Rename”
3) Add Rename Finder. . . above the step 1, “Folder” in the workflow
4) Don’t Add the extra stuff
5) Save (The defaults are good)

The date is appended to each file so there are no longer any overwritten files (unless you make 2 purchases in the same day). Best would be to find a way to insert a hash of the web page into the filename. Selecting “Make Sequential” (step 4.5) in place of “Date and Time” makes sense, too.

By: Branin

Branin — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:44:39 +0000

I had the problem of overwriting the files myself. I lost 6 months of statements, credit card payments and transactions because I did not realize the files were being written over.

I have fixed this issue by adding two lines to the automator script that saves the files to the web receipts folder. Now, my action will append the date and time to each pdf file created in web receipts. This is what I would have expected in the first place.

The script is called “Save PDF to Web Receipts Folder.workflow” in the /Library/PDF Services folder. You may use my modified script: http://www.braninjohnson.com/download/Save PDF to Web Receipts Folder.workflow.zip Just unzip and place in your /Library/PDF Services folder.

By: garbanzito

garbanzito — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 23:55:32 +0000

warning — after doing this with a simple folder alias in PDF Services folder for years, then switching to the Automator action built into Tiger, “Save PDF to Web Reciepts Folder”, i just discovered that the latter has a bug which overwrites files; so for example if you save credt card payment receipts and the like, the bug will cause the receipt for the current month to overwrite the previous month because it has the same name! this was an unpleasant surprise after so many years of it working reliably; i suggest you replace the default action with an alias to your “web receipts” folder

By: erik

erik — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 23:11:50 +0000

I’ve been dumping PDF receipts in my documents folder since OS X came out, but this has become easily retrievable thanks to Spotlight.