Difficulty with b/u script on 10.1.3
Difficulty with b/u script on 10.1.3
- Subject: Difficulty with b/u script on 10.1.3
- From: Phil Dobbin <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 13:02:34 +0000
Hi, all.
I'm attempting to duplicate my/~Home/Documents folder to an external FireWire drive.
I "borrowed" this script from David Pogue (Mac OS X:The Missing Manual) which seemed to have all the
correct doo-dahs I needed. However, it quits very early on with this error message:
"ScriptMenu.
A script error occured. Finder got an error: Bad name for file. Some objectO cuAo~AO"
Both uppercase A's have umlauts attached, and the lowercase o before the caret is struck through,
bottom left to top right. The script is run from ScriptMenu (/~Home/Library/Scripts).
Here is the script:
tell application "Finder"
duplicate folder "Documents" of folder "phil" of folder "Users" of startup disk to disk
"Monster" with replacing
activate
beep (display dialog "Backup Successful!" buttons "Cool!")
end tell
The duplication commences but is stopped after around five seconds (I included replacing so that
with future use the script would replace any already exisiting Documents folder).
Any thoughts, greatly appreciated (I'm trying to actually back-up my entire Home directory. I
thought I'd try b/u my Docs folder first).
Machine info: Late 2001 iMac/500/256MB RAM/AS 1.8.1/OS X.1.3
Regards,
Phil (cc please - am on digest ;-)
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