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Re: Here's a strange one
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Re: Here's a strange one


  • Subject: Re: Here's a strange one
  • From: Nigel Garvey <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 12:45:51 +0100

Daniel Robinson wrote on Thu, 19 Apr 2001 19:53:58 -0400:

>Thanks to months of refinement and ocassional help from this group, I have
>60 Mac
>G4 towers, running stock OS 9.0.4. With Akua Sweets and iDo Script
>Scheduler.
>
>Beginning at midnight, two minutes apart, they each begin executing a
>string of
>applets.
>
>At the end of applet "Main" is the line"
>
> run script alias "Macintosh HD:System Folder:Tasks:Main 2"
>
>Occasionally, unpredictably, and on different machines, that line becomes:
>
> run script alias "Macintosh HD:Applications:Adobe Premiere. 6.0
>:Help:images:spherize.gif"
>
>or some other seemingly random file.
>
>Part of what "Main" does, is occasionally, when Main 2 is updated, replace
>Main 2
>with a newer version.
>Since "With replacing" has never worked, I delete the old Main2 first, then
>copy
>the new one. But that doesn't seem to cause this problem.

The 'run script' line contains the word 'alias', so you'd expect it to
change to:

run script alias "Macintosh HD:Trash:Main 2"

... when Main 2 is deleted. Maybe the alias just goes crazy when the
trash is emptied and the link is broken. Try replacing 'alias' with
'file'.

NG


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