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selecting Show All Filename Extensions. (You can turn this off later, if you like.) Give some
or all of your JPEGs the extension
.JPG
.
One last thing before we run the macro: if Keyboard Maestro's status or menu isn't
already visible in your Mac's menu bar, switch back to Keyboard Maestro, go to Keyboard
Maestro > Preferences > General and make sure Display Status Menu is set to either
Alphabetically, By Group, or Hierarchically (i.e., not Never).
Now select all the files in your test folder. (Or at least, select a bunch of files, some of which
have the
.JPG
extension.) Then choose Change Extensions from the Keyboard Maestro
status or menu. You should see the dialog (which you created!) shown in
Figure 46
.
Figure 46:
This dialog should appear when you run your macro.
Leave the options at their defaults and click OK. The extensions on selected files that were
previously
.JPG
should change to
.jpeg
. (Feel free to run the macro as often as you like,
with different From and To settings and different files selected to see how it works.)
Record a Macro
If you read
Automate Microsoft Office
,
you may recall that in Office apps, you can record
a macro. In other words, Office will watch you while you perform activities, and then make
themintoamacro.Youcanplaythismacrobacklater,nocodingrequired.KeyboardMaestro
offers a similar feature. It won't always produce results as reliable as creating your own
macro from scratch—and not every kind of macro can be recorded—but it's a simple way to
ease into macro construction or get unstuck if you're stuck.
To record a macro:
1. Create a new macro, just as in the earlier examples, and give it a name and
trigger.
