Re: Events that halt system shutdown.
Re: Events that halt system shutdown.
- Subject: Re: Events that halt system shutdown.
- From: "Geoff Canyon" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 15:02:23 -0700
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I have a couple of AppleScripts that run (in Mac OS 9.2.2) in the
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Shutdown Items folder. One of these scripts has been in production for some
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time, and works very well. The other, which I have been working on for a
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couple of weeks, can sometimes halt the shutdown process and leave the user
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at the Finder.
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Are there certain events that can halt system shutdown or restart?
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Can any of these events be triggered by AppleScript?
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Thanks.
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Christopher Fox
I think starting up any app after the Shut Down process is begun will halt the process. In my primitive lizard brain, I believe it's because the Shut Down process makes a list of the open apps when it starts, shuts them down, and then if anything is open assumes it should stop.
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regards,
Geoff Canyon
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