I have gone with your first solution. By opening Vuze then putting the
computer to sleep, it now wakes up at 2am with Vuze running.
I will wait and see if it also goes to sleep at 12pm as set. Of
course, if downloads were limitless then there would be no need for
this at all.
I may try your second idea once the quota has been reset on the 13th.
Andrew
On 03/05/2009, at 9:29 AM, James Devenish wrote:
Hi Andrew,
There are potentially several solution to your issue, the first of
which you have already tried (i.e., using System Preferences > Energy
Saver to set a wake-up time for your computer).
Secondly, even if you your computer was on all the time (forgetting
the sleep/wake energy issue for the time being), your torrent software
might have a bandwidth preference with a specified start time and stop
time. For instance, in Transmission, you can set your download
bandwidth to be unlimited during your off-peak quota period and zero
during your on-peak quota period.
Thirdly, if you would like to have your software automatically launch
you can still use a repeating event in iCal, either by opening files
(to start a new download) or opening the application (to continue
existing uploads and downloads). Unfortunately, as you already found
out, iCal can only launch an application via opening a document or
running an AppleScript. To make an AppleScript, go into Applications >
AppleScript > Script Editor, then save a really simple AppleScript
like the following (and save it somewhere you can find it, like
Documents). Then iCal will recognise it.
tell application "Vuse"
activate
end tell
James.
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