Re: Newbie Backup Dialog
Re: Newbie Backup Dialog
- Subject: Re: Newbie Backup Dialog
- From: "Marc K. Myers" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 12:44:56 -0400
- Organization: [very little]
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Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 13:08:08 +0100
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Subject: Newbie Backup Dialog
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From: John McMillan <email@hidden>
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To: <email@hidden>
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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
If you'd prefer to keep the dialog, you could avoid having it time out.
The reason it times out is because it's being displayed by an
application external to the script. If the script itself displays it,
the dialog will stay on the screen until something dismisses it. So
you'd say:
tell me
display dialog .............
end tell
Marc K. Myers <email@hidden>
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[5/29/01 12:44:29 PM]