
Click on the “File” menu on the top and select “Save…”.Tell application “Finder” to make new file at (the target of the front window) as alias Copy the following script and paste it into the AppleScript box in the workflow:.Type “Run AppleScript” in the search box, and drag the entry that appear in the search result to the workflow panel on the right.Choose “Application” as the type of your document, and click on “Choose” button.As Automator opens, select the Applications folder in the left panel as saved location, and click on “New Document” to create a new application.Launch Automator from the Applications > Utilities folder, Launchpad, or Spotlight.To easily create a new blank text file in any folder using Automator, you can follow the steps below: But actually, you can make use of Mac’s built-in Automator or Terminal to help create a new blank text file in Finder. Surely there are many 3rd party apps that help user to accomplish this goal, such as NuFile, Path Finder.

In Mac OS this feature is missing, and many users find it a little inconvenient to create a new blank text file. For instance, they cannot create a new document from the contextual menu that appears when right click on the blank space in a folder. Features like this is why I adore macOS so much, in case you couldn’t already sense my admiration.Many users, after they switched from Windows OS to Mac OS, may get lost in many different features. Not only is the New Folder With Selection feature extremely handy for quickly organizing files, it’s accompanied by a pretty sweet looking animation as well. The keyboard shortcut has a slight benefit over using the right-click action, as the keyboard shortcut allows you to place a single file into a new folder as well. If you want to undo the new folder and move the item(s) back to their original location, just execute an undo command (Command+Z). Step 2: press Control+Command+N on your keyboard

Step 1: highlight the files you wish to place into a folder You can also use a keyboard shortcut to combine all selected files into a folder Step 3: type the name of the new folder and press Return on the keyboard Step 2: right-click while the items are selected, and click New Folder with Selection.Īt the end of the New Folder with Selection text, you’ll see the number of items that will be placed in the folder inside parentheses. Step 1: highlight the files and/or folders that you wish to place into a new folder
