RE: last call for assistance...
RE: last call for assistance...
- Subject: RE: last call for assistance...
- From: "Goodman, Steve" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 17:54:40 -0500
This should get you started.....requires akua sweets osax
*****not tested*****
set searchfolder to (choose folder with prompt "choose a folder to
search")--hard code your path
set destfolder to (choose folder with prompt "choose a folder to backup
files to")--hard code your path
set thelist to the entries in searchfolder that were modified after
((current date) - (2 * days)) to a depth of 1 whose kinds are a file as
alias
repeat with aFile in thelist
tell application "Finder" to duplicate aFile to alias
destfolder
end repeat
Steve Goodman
Vertis Advertising Production Services
phone 314.432.8800, ext. 479
fax 314.692.0309
email@hidden
www.vertisinc.com
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-----Original Message-----
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From: Kevin J Krejca [mailto:email@hidden]
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Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 4:54 PM
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To: email@hidden
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Subject: last call for assistance...
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Being new to the list, I may have missed some protocol. If so
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I apologize.
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Being new to AppleScript, what I am asking may be impossible
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(though I doubt
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it) or so ridiculously simple everybody thought I would
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figure it out on my
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own (significantly more likely) alas, I have not as of yet
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figured out the
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backup script issue...
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My two stumbling blocks are that it is over a network and I
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am refering to
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alias' of files... I am three quarters of the way through
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"AppleScript For
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Dummies" and I've only gotten as far as I have because of
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that... If anybody
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could just point me in the right direction of a good book or
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even just a
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couple of more lines... I feel like the kid that just can't
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beat the level
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boss...
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I honestly believe there is a way to back up all of the files
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an individual
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has worked on in a given day by the push of one button, call
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it a dream,
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call it insanity, but I call it AppleScript.
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Again, any help would be very seriously appreciated... thanx
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kevin J krejca
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Production Manager
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J Halcomb Advertising
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