After seeing the new Stacks feature in Leopard I thought I’d try to clean up my desktop.

So I changed the preferences in Safari, Camino etc. so that downloads are directed to my Downloads folder (In my Home/User folder) rather than the Desktop.

Then set up up a script to automatically open up the folder any time new items (downloads) were added to that folder. Keeps things much tidier.

Here’s the script

Save the script to ‘~Library/Scripts/Folder Action Scripts’. Then right click on the Downloads folder & select ‘Attach a Folder Action…’. Select the ‘Open when new items are added.scpt’ file & that should be it.

Tags: applescript, mac, os x, productivity

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