Re: Here's a strange one
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:
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Thanks to months of refinement and ocassional help from this group, I have
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60 Mac
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G4 towers, running stock OS 9.0.4. With Akua Sweets and iDo Script
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Scheduler.
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Beginning at midnight, two minutes apart, they each begin executing a
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string of
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applets.
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At the end of applet "Main" is the line"
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run script alias "Macintosh HD:System Folder:Tasks:Main 2"
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Occasionally, unpredictably, and on different machines, that line becomes:
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run script alias "Macintosh HD:Applications:Adobe Premiere. 6.0
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:Help:images:spherize.gif"
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or some other seemingly random file.
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Part of what "Main" does, is occasionally, when Main 2 is updated, replace
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Main 2
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with a newer version.
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Since "With replacing" has never worked, I delete the old Main2 first, then
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copy
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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