Re: duplicating files and adding today's date
Re: duplicating files and adding today's date
- Subject: Re: duplicating files and adding today's date
- From: Douglas Berg <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 18:43:37 -0800
For renaming the file to the days date, I use:
set the name of file "pathname:here" of disk "disk" to the date
string of (current date)
Others have posted suggestions for the copying, etc.
doug
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i have a FM Pro database that i want to make a backup applescript that is
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open all of the time and will:
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1 - temporarily close the open database at midnight every night.
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2 - duplicate and copy it to a set folder.
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3 - rename the document to the date of that day.
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4 - open the database back up in FM Pro.
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if anyone knows how to make the script occur at a given hour
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and to have the file renamed with the current date, that would
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be most helpful...
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thanks,
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chris
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