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Need to run script periodically

Subject: Need to run script periodically
From: Brian Christmas <email@hidden>
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2017 11:03:08 +1100

G’day scripters

I’m trying to get a script to stay open, and run every 10 seconds, but getting a ‘stack overflow’.

I don’t want to enter any terminal commands to run it periodically, as I don’t want it to be permanant.

I’ve tried this, but the shell script to quit & restart does not seem to recognize scripts.

I know the path is OK, with display dialog FolderActions

It’s the ‘killall’ that doesn’t seem to work. Only for .apps apparently. Or is there some special process I can kill?

Also tried an ‘idle’ command, but the script quits.

It’s called as a folder action script, so I can’t save as an App.

Any suggestions please?

Regards

Santa

global FolderActions

tell application "Finder"

set FolderActions to POSIX path of (path to Folder Action scripts folder from user domain)

end tell

try

say 1

do shell script ("killall 'ftp Downloader'&&sleep 10&&open -a FolderActions&'ftp Downloader.scpt'")

say 2

on error errMsg

tell application "System Events" to display dialog errMsg giving up after 5

end try

say 3

do shell script ("sleep 10")

tell me to run

Errors with sh: ftp Downloader.scpt: command not found

No matching processes belonging to you were found

on run

say "start"

my SetUpFile2()

end run

on idle

tell me to run

return 10

end idle

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