yes that would work but you can only set a calendar alarm to repeat daily, so that’s no good for a 30min loop
On 11/03/2015, at 8:11 am, Bruno-Pierre Jobin <[email protected]> wrote: > You can run AppleScipt scripts inside automator, I'm not in front of a mac > right now but I'm pretty sure you can trigger it with a calendar alarm or a > workflow in Automator. > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 2:56 PM, jean-luc <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All > > I am trying to have a small backup job run in the background to keep > incremental copies of the NukeStudio autosave files (I had a scare the other > day with a corrupted timeline that I couldn’t re-open, including autosave). > So I have installed a program that copies the autosave files every 30 min but > it prevents my mac from going to sleep. > I’s kind of a good thing because it means the mac won’t go to sleep when Nuke > is running or rendering, but I want my machine to go to sleep when I’m not > using Nuke. > > So I have made an applescript that starts to “sync folders” app when Nuke is > running and stops it when Nuke isn’t running. It works great but I need to > run it manually, I’m trying to figure out how to make it run every 30 min in > the background. > > Any clue how to make that happen? (this is the first code I have ever written > and I did it by copy pasting what I found online!) > > > > ######### > > if application "NukeStudio9.0v4" is running then > > launch application "Sync Folders" > else > > quit application "Sync Folders" > > end if > > ########## > > Cheers > Jean-Luc > > > _______________________________________________ > Nuke-users mailing list > [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ > http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users > > -- > Bruno-Pierre Jobin > _______________________________________________ > Nuke-users mailing list > [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ > http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users
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