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: SemiColon <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 09:06:59 -0800
At 4:07 PM -0700 11/27/00, Chris Chattom wrote:
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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...
FileMaker databases should *not be duplicated with the Finder.
FileMaker needs to do its own back ups, or risk duplication of
corrupt db's. I would recommend a FileMaker Script to perform the
back up, with a final AppleScript step to rename the file.
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