Re: Need to run script periodically
Re: Need to run script periodically
- Subject: Re: Need to run script periodically
- From: David Crowe <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2017 21:22:27 +0800
Brian;
I’m confused as to why you can’t save as an app. If the script is also a folder action script you could have a .scpt file and a .app file
- David Crowe
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> Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2017 21:34:19 +1100
> From: Brian Christmas <email@hidden>
> To: Applescript Users <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Need to run script periodically
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> G’day again.
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> Sorry, sent original to wrong list. Please read all to catch up.
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> I’m making no progress after many hours of research. Only realized I could leave the ‘killall' completely out of the picture.
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> The command ‘launch’ is recommended for scripted Apps, but nothing in Googling shows how to actually run an Applescript from a ’do shell script'.
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> The script
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> tell application "Finder"
> set pathToFolderActionscripts to (path to Folder Action scripts folder from user domain) as text
> end tell
> set scriptPath to quoted form of POSIX path of (pathToFolderActionscripts & "ftp Downloader.scpt" as text)
> do shell script ("sleep 10&&open -a " & scriptPath)
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> errors with…
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> It seems shell scripts are reserved for opening/launching/running Applications ONLY.
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> These lead to a stack overflow (naturally).
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> #do shell script ("sleep 10")
> # tell me to run
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> I’ve found a list of the commands other than ‘-a’, they’re
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> -a, -b,
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> Any suggestions on what I might do, please?
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> Regards
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> Santa
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