On or near 4/24/04 10:04 AM, Sonja Ray at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: >> From: Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 09:41:55 -0700 >> To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: Scripted backup of DB >> >> If one didn't want to shut down the machine, it would be fairly easy to >> write two simple AppleSCripts: >> >> tell application "Microsoft Entourage" to quit >> >> And >> >> tell application "Microsoft Entourage" to activate [or "to launch"] >> >> Put those into cron with an "osascript" command to run the scripts, running >> the quit script a minute before your ditto script, and running the >> activation script after a reasonable interval to allow the copy to complete. >> When I duplicate my MUD folder in Finder it rarely takes over 2 minutes, but >> then, I keep my database trimmed down to about 5000 messages. Larger >> databases would need a longer time to complete the copy. >> >> Example: >> >> osascript -e 'tell application "Microsoft Entourage" to activate' >> >> osascript -e 'tell application "Microsoft Entourage" to quit' > > > Hey, this is very cool, thanks! It's definitely an improvement on what I'm > currently doing. > > Just one question: Do I have to have anything special installed to use the > "osascript" command? I've seen references to that but really have no idea > what it refers to. > Nope. It's a standard part of the Mac OS X flavor of Unix. You can read about it by entering Terminal and typing "man osascript".
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