Shortcuts - Voice memo issue

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Trying to create a voice memo workflow that:

  1. Records audio
  2. Saves to iCloud Drive
  3. Retrieve link to file
  4. Adds a new to do in Things with the link in the description

I keep getting the error "the file couldn’t be opened when using get link action. No idea why it’s throwing that.

I tried backing into it by reverse engineering the URL and dropping the file name in but there appears to be some random parts to the URL that I can’t make a template for.

Any ideas?

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Can you share your actual shortcut? Share sheet, copy iCloud link. That way it would be possible to look at it and see what’s happening.

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Thanks Rosemary!

Here is the link: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/d576f63d2cde4e6a91860d5d07f653fb

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First of all:
You need to supply a correct path:
Instead of /Shortcuts/Memos you should supply path as this: /Shortcuts/Memos/

Second:
If the folder Memos doesn’t exist this error will pop up.
Solution would be to either:

  • Enable “Overwrite if archive exist” as shown in this image

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or create the folder /Memos/ inside iCloud/Shortcuts/
and then specify filename or use “Ask…” like this

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If you are going to save these files I recommend the “Ask…” approach

I hope this helps you further along :slight_smile:

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Thanks for your note.

I added the / after memos. That folder is already created (and I can see the files being placed).

Still getting that error…

Screencast: https://cl.ly/f59d5d8bf601

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I was finally able to get it to work with a large wait the save file command - must need time to upload?

I really just want a local link though so I don’t need to wait.

Is this possible?

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What happens if you save to dropbox instead of icloud? (just to troubleshoot?)

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I don’t use Dropbox. I think it would work like the iCloud link is (with a long enough wait).

My goal is to just stash it in files and grab local link. It can think passively sync and I can click the reference link on any device to open. Otherwise there would be a long delay as it uploads and then generates link.

I can’t find anyway to do reference links though…?

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Unfortunately Shortcuts can’t save to a pre-defined local on-device folder - for that you would have to manually select the folder the Save to… proces.

How big files are we talking - since Shortcuts seem to time-out (without doing so) when saving to iCloud folder?

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The files are saving fine inside the Shortcuts folder in the /Memos folder I created.

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@RosemaryOrchard - any ideas? I’m essentially stuck because I cannot create a local link to the save location in iCloud without it generating a public link which takes a long time to upload and then return back with.

That is why I think I’m getting the error because if I add a long pause it works.

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My bad - what I meant to say was that you cannot save outside the Shortcuts folder without interaction when running the shortcut😂

But glad to hear you’ve got it working🙂

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