Re: Newbie Backup Dialog
Re: Newbie Backup Dialog
- Subject: Re: Newbie Backup Dialog
- From: Andy Wylie <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 01:09:53 +1200
on 30/5/01 12:08 AM, John McMillan at email@hidden wrote:
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Newbie Question
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I have written a script that will backup a "work" folder on a Mac to an
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external Hard Drive each night. At the end of the script I have a dialog to
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display that the backup was completed successfully. My problem is that the
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dialog times out because there is no human intervention until the next
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morning. Is there some way of letting the operator know that the backup
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(Script) has been completed without having any intervention?
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Regards John
How about telling the dialog to give up...
display dialog "string" giving up after 30
_____________________________ Andy