If you are experienced with the Terminal you could try the following command (execute it in the drop box folder) to change the modified timestamp to the current date:

find . -type f -name 'test.txt' -exec touch `date +%m%d%H%M` {} \;

I don’t know if the above problem can be fixed using Automator. I’ll have to look into it.

@ Frank: It seems the contextual menu option is no longer supported in 10.6 Snow Leopard. Since I’m still on 10.4 I don’t know how to solve this problem.

You may find the solution on this page: automator-and-finder-interactions-in-os-x-10-6

I’ve updated my post concerning this issue.

I have another question, instead of adding music files into itunes from an external harddrive, I would like to use a special folder (dropbox folder). But it should be the same but instead of the external harddrive I say the automator to find finder items which are music files.

Every thing works fine but when I chose the aspect that I only want to chose files which have been modified within the last 2 weeks I have the problem, that sometimes I have files which are modified a longer time ago but are new to me, and so these files won’t get improted into iTunes. Do you have an idea how to change the timestamp or to make it possible that it only tries to import newer files. You are right the progress of reloading all files will take too much time!

And I am using Snow Leopard, I can’t use the right mouse click on my desktop to chose automator! Do I need to activate it somewhere?

Thank you very much!

Markus

Could you tell me how you fixed the problem? There are several other people that have the same problem as you did and probably could use your info ;-)

Anyone know what’s going on with this?

Thanks for your work!

As mentioned before you only have to create the Automator script. See the screenshot for the instructions.

i think this version doesn’t work anymore with snow leopard, or does it?
because there is not even a possibility to open the automator with a rightklick.

thanks for an answere!