Gary Rathbone wrote/ schreef:
> At about 3am every morning I need to copy a folder from one location to
> another on a different volume.
>
> I understand the idleticks is NOT the way to do this and that :
>
> send "backup" to me in 21600 seconds
>
> is a better method. I can then check the time and also see if the backup has
> occurred.
I think a better way of doing this is to check the time every minute (or
something) and then see whether the time (in seconds from 1904) that the
backup had to be made is already past, and then check whether that backup is
done, and if not done, do it then.
> It seems the 'rename' command doesn't allow the moving of a directory on Mac
> systems. Is there another command that will do this....
>
> I can easily achieve my aim in Applescript or Supercard but would prefer a
> Metacard solution.
I think you'll have to use AppleScript from within MC with my
MacFileAttribs- stack which I mailed you off-list, but also can be found at:
http://homepage.mac.com/sjoerdoptland/macfileattribs.mc
(Choose save as... to get it as a file on your disk.)
And then run:
tell application "Finder"
activate
copy folder "FolderToBeBackupped" to folder "Sites"
end tell
Or something like that.
> TIA.
>
> Gary Rathbone
Hope this helps,
Sjoerd
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