Fetch Softworks

Applescript & Watched folder (4 posts)

• Started 14 years ago by dburnham
• Latest reply 14 years ago from Jim Matthews

• dburnham Member

  I have a situation in which some of my customers are unable to send their files by FTP to the server I designate for them, but they are able to send the files by FTP to an IP address I've given them to a machine on my network. That machine has no problem connecting to the machine that my customers are having trouble with. So until I am able to unravel what's causing it, I want to set up some automation to simple relay the files when they arrive.

  I am familiar with using AppleScript and Folder Actions but I know how important it is for the script to be correct.

  So I just want to know if the example script called "Upload Folder Action.scpt is the one I need to use. It looks so perfectly written as if I don't need to change a single word, so I just want to make sure it's not too good to be true! :-)

  Posted 14 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  That script should work. You need to edit it in order to tell it where the files should be uploaded; then you would attach it to a folder as a folder action.

  The one problem that may happen with large files is that Fetch may start uploading a file that hasn't finished being uploaded to the folder with the folder action script. If that is a problem let me know -- I have a different script that may do the trick.

  Thanks,

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 14 years ago #

• dburnham Member

  Yes, jim, I would appreciate seeing a script that has a pause step in it. I'd like to have it wait about 2 minutes because one of my customers sends a 10mb file and I am pretty sure that the folder action won't wait for it to finish arriving unless there's a pause of some kind. Otherwise, yes, it works great.

  Thanks,
  Dennis

  Posted 14 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  You should be able to do that by adding the line:

  delay 120

  right before the "put into" line. That will have Fetch wait for two minutes before starting the upload.

  Thanks,

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 14 years ago #