cool, that looks like a good solution. I’ll have a look.

Thanks!

On 11/03/2015, at 8:38 am, Ant Nasce <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey Jean-Luc,
> 
> Have you looked into a running a crontab job or using launchd?
> 
> https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPSystemStartup/Chapters/ScheduledJobs.html
> 
> And an example tutorial here:
> 
> http://benr75.com/pages/using_crontab_mac_os_x_unix_linux
> 
> Cheers,
> Ant
> 
> On Tuesday, 10 March 2015, jean-luc <[email protected]> wrote:
> hehe..
> Worst case scenario I’ll have to quit the app manually to let he mac go to 
> sleep :)
> 
> 
> 
> On 11/03/2015, at 8:26 am, Ron Ganbar <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hmmm... that does put a damper on things...
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Ron Ganbar
>> email: [email protected]
>> tel: +44 (0)7968 007 309 [UK]
>>      +972 (0)54 255 9765 [Israel]
>> url: http://ronganbar.wordpress.com/
>> 
>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 9:21 PM, jean-luc <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Sure, That would work too. But I have no idea how to write python (or any 
>> other language, applescript seemed like a easy way to do it)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 11/03/2015, at 8:18 am, Ron Ganbar <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> How about using two Python scripts when opening Nuke or closing Nuke to 
>>> open and close that application as well?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Ron Ganbar
>>> email: [email protected]
>>> tel: +44 (0)7968 007 309 [UK]
>>>      +972 (0)54 255 9765 [Israel]
>>> url: http://ronganbar.wordpress.com/
>>> 
>>> 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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