There are also some excellent apps to solve this problem. (In my case, Dagobah is my Time Machine Drive, and Batuu is my extra storage.) This solution works but is tedious. There is a handy little Eject button next to each removable drive. You could go in the Finder and eject the drive under “Locations” in the Sidebar.
#Applescript script keyboard maestro mac#
(Just yanking a drive out of your Mac is a terrible idea.) It’s important that I properly dismount those drives before unplugging. I have a Time Machine and external storage drive connected to my Mac when attached to the monitor. However, another friction point is disconnecting. Maybe it is the Apple silicon switchover or improvements to macOS, but that’s no longer a problem. I prefer to keep the laptop closed when doing this (often called “clamshell” mode), and for years macOS did not like that. The last time I tried this, I had lots of problems getting the Mac and monitor to talk to each other when I’d plug it in. Line 2 tells Mail to look for a signature called “Signature #1”: this can be a rich text signature, and you can get its name by opening Mail’s Preferences and looking for it in the Signatures tab.I’ve been using a laptop + monitor setup for a while now, and I like it more than I expected. It was easy enough to look up Mail’s AppleScript dictionary and put the pieces together after knowing where to look. Set sender of theOutgoingMessage to "Federico Viticci "
Set message signature of theOutgoingMessage to signature theSignatureName Set theOutgoingMessage to reply theMessage with opening window Set theMessage to first item of theMessages Set theMessages to the selected messages of the front message viewer It may be out of fashion among the cool kids (like email, I guess), but AppleScript allows us to start a reply to the selected message, set a signature, and a specific sender. Thankfully, Apple hasn’t forgotten about AppleScript, and neither has Mail.app. That seemed like a good starting point to build the macro I was looking for. I was inspired by this old post by Shawn Blanc (he solves a different problem than mine) to fire up Keyboard Maestro and start playing around with actions thanks to Shawn’s post, I remembered that Keyboard Maestro’s keyboard shortcuts are intercepted by OS X before the system ones – which means, if I were to use the same ⌘R shortcut that Mail uses but I assigned it to my custom action, OS X would launch my action first (instead of the default Mail one). I don’t want to click on menus for accounts and signatures: I want to hit ⌘R and receive a new Reply window with the account and signature I want already set. Apple’s Mail app makes it easy to see all messages sent to all accounts with the unified Inbox, but it makes it surprisingly hard to set default accounts and signatures that should always be treated as, well, default ones. I receive several messages every day to different email addresses, but I always want to reply with the same address and the same signature. As you can guess, I came up with a way to automate the process using AppleScript and (optionally) Keyboard Maestro. But there is one thing I don’t like: Apple’s Mail app and how many clicks it takes to switch between configured accounts and signatures. I have multiple addresses set up, I have my filters and smart folders to automate the process of filing and finding emails, and I’m enjoying the renewed interest of iOS developers in building email apps that solve old problems in new ways.
I’m aware of the fact that it’s a common trend to call email a “nightmare” these days, but the truth is – email works for me.
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