Time Machine is something I looked into, but it turned out that little to no TM information is available to AppleScript, unfortunately. I just had a look in Safari's scripting dictionary, and downloads aren't mentioned once, so it looks like a script couldn't access that information either. > On Feb 28, 2015, at 8:01 AM, Eugenia Firth <gigifi...@me.com> wrote: > >> Hi guys: > I am beginning to see the advantages of learning Apple script, or, if I find > it too technical for me, cheering on someone else with those skills. I > definitely cheer you on, Alex, for having given me my favorite ones, checking > the time and date and checking battery status. I would like another one, and > I would like to know first, if it would work, and second, how could I make a > copy of and edit a script to do it. When I do my Time Machine backups, I want > to check the status. How can that be done with an Apple script so it would > work like the battery checking one? Checking download status would be nice, > too, but I am doing the other more often lately. > > All this brings another question. Has anybody written instructions as to how > to do this or has the instructions been put into a podcast somewhere or on > iTunes U? > Gigi > >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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