Re: [Nuke-users] question for Applescripts savvy people

2015-03-16 Thread Johannes Hezer
Shouldnt Timemachine do what you want to have anyway ? You can set the hourly intervall to 30 mins http://www.macyourself.com/2010/02/21/how-to-change-time-machine-backup-interval-backup-manually/ cheers johannes Am 3/10/15 um 22:52 PM schrieb jean-luc: nice! I think that’s going to b the

Re: [Nuke-users] question for Applescripts savvy people

2015-03-12 Thread Bruno-Pierre Jobin
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 jlaz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All I am trying to have a small backup job run in

Re: [Nuke-users] question for Applescripts savvy people

2015-03-12 Thread jean-luc
That sound great. How about making it an option in the Nuke preferences? On 11/03/2015, at 8:58 am, Deke Kincaid d...@thefoundry.co.uk wrote: The autosave is just python. I know many people that modified the autosave to do 100 versions of it like Shake used to. -- Deke Kincaid Media

Re: [Nuke-users] question for Applescripts savvy people

2015-03-12 Thread Pete O'Connell
Hi Jean-Luc. To run scheduled jobs on a mac launchd is pretty clean: http://alvinalexander.com/mac-os-x/launchd-plist-examples-startinterval-startcalendarinterval It sounds like you might just need a rolling autosave though. This webpage explains really well how to set it up:

Re: [Nuke-users] question for Applescripts savvy people

2015-03-10 Thread Deke Kincaid
Send the feature request into support :) -- Deke Kincaid Media Entertainment OEM Development Manager The Foundry Skype: dekekincaid Tel: (310) 399 4555 - Mobile: (310) 883 4313 Web: www.thefoundry.co.uk Email: d...@thefoundry.co.uk On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 1:02 PM, jean-luc jlaz...@gmail.com

Re: [Nuke-users] question for Applescripts savvy people

2015-03-10 Thread jean-luc
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 ron...@gmail.com wrote: Hmmm... that does put a damper on things... Ron Ganbar email: ron...@gmail.com tel: +44 (0)7968 007 309 [UK] +972 (0)54 255

Re: [Nuke-users] question for Applescripts savvy people

2015-03-10 Thread jean-luc
thanks! On 11/03/2015, at 8:46 am, Quico Noizeux kee...@gmail.com wrote: Try with launchd, there is an app to edit tasks called lingon iirc. Cheers El 10/03/2015, a las 19:56, jean-luc jlaz...@gmail.com escribió: Hi All I am trying to have a small backup job run in the background

[Nuke-users] question for Applescripts savvy people

2015-03-10 Thread jean-luc
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

Re: [Nuke-users] question for Applescripts savvy people

2015-03-10 Thread Quico Noizeux
Try with launchd, there is an app to edit tasks called lingon iirc. Cheers El 10/03/2015, a las 19:56, jean-luc jlaz...@gmail.com escribió: 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

Re: [Nuke-users] question for Applescripts savvy people

2015-03-10 Thread Deke Kincaid
The autosave is just python. I know many people that modified the autosave to do 100 versions of it like Shake used to. -- Deke Kincaid Media Entertainment OEM Development Manager The Foundry Skype: dekekincaid Tel: (310) 399 4555 - Mobile: (310) 883 4313 Web: www.thefoundry.co.uk Email:

Re: [Nuke-users] question for Applescripts savvy people

2015-03-10 Thread jean-luc
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 ron...@gmail.com wrote: How about using two Python scripts when opening Nuke or closing Nuke to open and close that

Re: [Nuke-users] question for Applescripts savvy people

2015-03-10 Thread jean-luc
cool, that looks like a good solution. I’ll have a look. Thanks! On 11/03/2015, at 8:38 am, Ant Nasce a...@thefoundry.co.uk wrote: Hey Jean-Luc, Have you looked into a running a crontab job or using launchd?

Re: [Nuke-users] question for Applescripts savvy people

2015-03-10 Thread Ron Ganbar
Hmmm... that does put a damper on things... Ron Ganbar email: ron...@gmail.com 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 jlaz...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, That would work too. But I have no idea

Re: [Nuke-users] question for Applescripts savvy people

2015-03-10 Thread jean-luc
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 bpjo...@gmail.com wrote: You can run AppleScipt scripts inside automator, I'm not in front of a mac right now but I'm pretty sure you

Re: [Nuke-users] question for Applescripts savvy people

2015-03-10 Thread Ant Nasce
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

Re: [Nuke-users] question for Applescripts savvy people

2015-03-10 Thread jean-luc
nice! I think that’s going to b the one. Thanks Pete! On 11/03/2015, at 10:45 am, Pete O'Connell pedrooconn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jean-Luc. To run scheduled jobs on a mac launchd is pretty clean: http://alvinalexander.com/mac-os-x/launchd-plist-examples-startinterval-startcalendarinterval