Re: Folder Action keeps dying
Re: Folder Action keeps dying
- Subject: Re: Folder Action keeps dying
- From: EL <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 17:17:01 -0700
On Saturday, Sep 27, 2003, at 04:11 America/Vancouver, Rob Jorgensen
wrote:
At 12:12 AM -0700 9/27/03, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
At 09:17a -0400 09/26/2003, Rob Jorgensen didst inscribe upon an
electronic papyrus:
At 9:44 PM +1000 9/26/03, Shane Stanley wrote:
On 26/9/03 10:07 AM +1000, Bert Knabe, email@hidden,
wrote:
Unless someone can help me figure out why I can't keep a folder
action
going, my next step is either a crash course in shell scripting
or a
script to start Distiller every so often, and kill distiller when
the
in-folder is empty.
Why not use a stay-open script with an idle handler to watch the
folder?
One disadvantage that comes to mind with a stay-open script is that
if files/folders remain in the watched folder after script
execution, a tracking mechanism will be required in order to avoid
repeated processing.
So, um, have a pre-process folder...
But this still means that a script must be running continuously for
each watched folder unless one writes their own app/script to emulate
folder actions. I hope that the Apple dev team is hard at work making
folder actions more reliable. If so, maybe they'll even throw a bone
to all of the Jaguar users who can't upgrade to Panther. ;-)
Don't know for sure, nor know what else you have running on your 'puter
but I have found the same thing while using other apps and suspect it
is something about how the FA system interacts with rest of the OS,
running the Enable script again has always started it up again. Try an
application script that stays open and runs the Enable Folder Actions
script every 2 hours or as necessary.
--
ForNow
ELamb
Design & Digital
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