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 >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Nuke-users mailing list >>> [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >>> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Nuke-users mailing list >>> [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >>> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Nuke-users mailing list >> [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Nuke-users mailing list >> [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users > > > > -- > Antony Nascè, PhD > Senior Creative Specialist - FLIX > The Foundry > 5 Golden Square > London, W1F 9HT, UK > Tel: +44 20 7479 4350 > Web: www.thefoundry.co.uk > Email: [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > 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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