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Stuffit Deluxe not applescriptable in 10.6.2
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  • Subject: Stuffit Deluxe not applescriptable in 10.6.2
  • From: John Mitchell <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:11:12 +1100

Title: Stuffit Deluxe not applescriptable in 10.6.2
Scripters

thks for the several feedbacks

I tried Matt Deatherage's  suggestions unsuccessfully using "DropStuff" .

I then followed has's

At 18:54 -0800 7/02/2010, email@hidden wrote:
John Mitchell wrote:

> I have been using Stuffit 10 to archive some data

Urgh, Stuffit. Hasn't that been consigned to its own circle of hell by now?


> Or a Unix app to substitute?

That would be the best solution. Avoids locking your data into a dying proprietary compression format, apart from anything else. Use ditto if you want to preserve any resource fork gubbins; gzip if you don't. Example:

set src_path to "/Users/foo/test/"
set dest_path to "/Users/foo/test.zip"
do shell script "ditto -ck " & quoted form of src_path & space & quoted form of dest_path

HTH
has

after some mods it works, and I would appreciate your feedback on why:

my src and dest paths have been of this form

mitchPro:Users:johnm:Documents:OfficeDB:Development:Databases:

in this form it failed, but worked when I deleted the diskname (or is it the computer name) and change the delimeter from : to /

set src_path to (change "mitchPro:" into "" in OdbDatabasesFolderPath) --"/Users/foo/test/"
set src_path to (change ":" into "/" in src_path) --"/Users/foo/test/"
set dest_path to (change "mitchPro:" into "" in backupPath)
set dest_path to (change ":" into "/" in dest_path) --"/Users/foo/test.zip"
do shell script "ditto -ck " & quoted form of src_path & space & quoted form of dest_path

the script is 2.5 times as fast, but slightly larger 84MB vs 72MB

I now have lost the FMPro "send event"  script  step:

Send Event [ "aevt"; "oapp"]

having saved the applescript as an "application (bundle)" from SD.
Is this the wrong format. FileMaker says 'The file <unknown > could not be found...'
--
regards


John
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