How about using two Python scripts when opening Nuke or closing Nuke to
open and close that application as well?



Ron Ganbar
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On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 9:14 PM, jean-luc <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
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