Comments on: Mac OSX Open Terminal Here Service

By: Jeroen

Jeroen — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:02:47 +0000

Hello Peter, this happens because Terminal.app opens an initial console window on your home folder. If you open Terminal.app manually yourself, you wil see this same effect.

U haven’t looked into it any further because it hasn’t bothered me. If you come accross a workaround, please post a comment.

By: Dave B

Dave B — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:35:37 +0000

Jeroen,

I am just migrating from Windows, and was jonesing for a replacement for Open Command Prompt Here. You Rock!

dave

By: Peter Davison

Peter Davison — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 04:19:01 +0000

For some reason when I run the script from the menu I get two Terminal windows opening up. One in my home folder and a second in the folder selected in the finder. Any ideas why? I’m running OS X Snow Leopard.

By: Michael Bushe

Michael Bushe — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:59:27 +0000

Thank you – this is a huge saver. I combined these last two approaches. I created the ~/library/services folder, opened up and Automater, did an innocent mod, saved, and it wound up in the right place doing the right thing. Thanks Again!

By: Fernando

Fernando — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:12:06 +0000

Jeroen,

I’ve just downloaded the file, extracted it, opened it with Automator and SAVE.
Saving created the Services folder and saved Open Terminal Here.workflow and everything ran smoothly.

Thanks for sharing !

By: j.g. owen

j.g. owen — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:09:15 +0000

Tue 12/08/2009 7:03 pm. Hi. This is what I did to get this useful thing working on my pitiful mini:

1. Copy the workflow file to ~/library/services (your home directory, library/ervices). If there *is* no “services” directory, first make it. (Stupidly I forgot how make a directory on the Mac and had to open a terminal!)

2. Then, in the services directory, double-click on the file to open the automator or whatever it is. Like someone advised, harmlessly mutilate the thing with a space in the comments or something, and then exit automator, and it should ask if it should save it, and you answer YES. Actually before I did that, I clicked the green button to run the thing once or whatever that does. … Anyway, I suspect this save wrinkle has something to do with the helpful snow leopard tagging the file as an evil internet file, and saving it makes it no longer an evil internet file. ?

3. Restart finder perhaps.

Then it worked good.

By: Ahmed

Ahmed — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:14:12 +0000

Thank you for this wonderful lil utility.

It worked fine with me. I opened the workflow in Automator and then Click RUN on the top right side. It automatically created the Services folder (It wasn’t there before) and It is all good.

Thanks again,

Regards.

By: Jesse Donat

Jesse Donat — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:04:46 +0000

Is there any way to make this so I don’t have to have a file selected for it to work?

By: Jeroen

Jeroen — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:33:00 +0000

If I understand correct, you have re-saved the item, if so, that probably corrected the reference in the workflow file.

By: Duke

Duke — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:44:10 +0000

I checked my version and it shows nibPath pointing to the *right* one (I think):

/System/Library/Automator/Run AppleScript.action/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/main.nib

By: Jeroen

Jeroen — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:53:23 +0000

I’ve found a small problem in the Open Terminal Here workflow. It contained an entry with the following contents:
/System/Library/Automator/Run AppleScript.action/Contents/Resources/Dutch/main.nib

Maybe that was causing the problem for you. I’ve uploaded version 0.2 with a fix. But as it’s already working for you, I’m wondering your nibPath entry contains in the workflow file.

By: Duke

Duke — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:21:09 +0000

Thanks Jeroen for the reply. I am not sure if I am doing anything wrong, but I still did not see context menu of Open Terminal Here following your instruction. Googling for a while, here is what I did:

– Open workflow using Automator
– Go to File – Save as Plug-In
– Type the desire name (Open Terminal Here)
– Plug-in for: Finder
– Save

Later, the Open Terminal Here will appear in tne context menu, under More – Automator. And it works.

Is that what you came up with in your system, or you have a context menu right after a right click? (not under More – Automator)?

Thanks,

By: Jeroen

Jeroen — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:41:33 +0000

Hello Duke,

I remember having this problem as well.

My solution was to open the workflow in Automator. Add a space at an empty line in the little script window and save the workflow, overwriting the one originally in the Services folder.

It seems some process needs to get a nudge. Perhaps restarting the Finder might work as well.

By: Duke

Duke — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:27:32 +0000

Hi Jeroen,

I didnt see any Services folder in ~/Library, so I created one, copy “Open Terminal Here.workflow” to that folder, but I still not see the context menu “Open Terminal Here”. What else do I have to do? Please help.

Thanks,

By: Florent V.

Florent V. — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:31:12 +0000

Thank you, i was searching for something just like that for Snow Leopard.