Cleaning Up Behind Skitch
I’ve gotten hooked on Skitch, a screen capture application that was bought byEvernote recently. It’s been a handy addition to my day-to-day toolset.
However, there was one thing about the Mac version of Skitch that drove me nuts: it saved copies of every screen grab in my Pictures folder (and there’s currently no way archive or delete them automatically. This means that my Pictures folder was getting literred with random screengrabs that I didn’t need anymore.
Since it wasn’t looking like that feature was coming any time soon, I decided to work around it. I wrote a short Applescript app that cleans up the history folder when run. It moves any images older than 3 days to a “HoldForDelete” folder and it deletes any files in the “HoldForDelete” folder that are older than 7 days. (Feel free to edit the timeframes if you want something different.).
I’ve uploaded the app in case anyone else wants to use it. I just run it on a preset schedule so that it’s constantly cleaning out that folder.
Download: CleanOutSkitchHistoryFolder.app.zip (27kb)
If you run into bugs or issues with the app, please let me know. I’ll try to fix it if I can. Let me know if you use it too; that’ll motivate me to do more of this!)
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