Create an automator task that adds whole folders as mail attachments

[peavine]

@peavine

I’m still a bit mystified by how the canPerformWithItems method is supposed to work and what it’s purpose is when sending an email.

Perhaps the canPerformWithItems method allows you to check specific items in the script and is just a form of error checking. I edited the last section of my script as follows and got expected results.

--make email
set aSharingService to current application's NSSharingService's sharingServiceNamed:(current application's NSSharingServiceNameComposeEmail)

aSharingService's canPerformWithItems:{anAttributedString} --> true
aSharingService's canPerformWithItems:theAttachments --> true
aSharingService's canPerformWithItems:allItems --> true
aSharingService's canPerformWithItems:{theData} --> false

If the above is correct, I’m still not sure what is accomplished by checking an email address. The script works well, so there’s probably no reason to overthink this.