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Automatically Downloading New Files in Directory (6 posts)
- Started 19 years ago by dvandelay
- Latest reply 19 years ago from Jim Matthews
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dvandelay Member
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Jim Matthews Administrator
You could run an AppleScript that periodically looks for new files and downloads them. Would you want the files deleted after they are downloaded, or moved into another folder on the server?
Thanks,
Jim Matthews
Fetch Softworks -
dvandelay Member
Thanks for the quick response. Moving the files to another folder would be a nice option.
-Dave
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Jim Matthews Administrator
Here's a script that should do what you want. You need to paste it into Script Editor and save it as an application that stays open. Right now it it's written to check for new files every 15 minutes; you can change that by editing the next to last line.
You need to edit the first line so that it has the URL for the folder you are interested in. You can put the password between the colon and at-sign, or leave it out if you want Fetch to get the password from the keychain.
I hope this helps,
Jim Matthews
Fetch Softworks
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property sourceURL : "ftp://userid:@host/path/"
property downloadedFilesFolderName : "downloaded"on downloadAndRenameFiles(theURL)
tell application "Fetch 4.0.3"
open url theURL
refresh file list transfer window 1
if not (exists remote file 1) then return
if not (exists remote directory downloadedFilesFolderName) then
make new remote directory at beginning with properties {name:downloadedFilesFolderName}
end if
set fileNameList to name of every remote file
set dialogMessage to "The following files have been downloaded: " & return
repeat with aFileName in fileNameList
set aFileNameString to (aFileName as string)
download remote file aFileNameString
set name of remote file aFileNameString to (downloadedFilesFolderName & "/" & aFileNameString)
set dialogMessage to dialogMessage & return & aFileNameString
end repeat
display dialog dialogMessage
end tell
end downloadAndRenameFileson idle
downloadAndRenameFiles(sourceURL)
return 15 * 60 -- run again in 15 minutes
end idle -
dvandelay Member
Thank you!
This is the best support I've ever received for any software (or anything else for that matter).
-Dave
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Jim Matthews Administrator
You're welcome! We need more example scripts, and your question was a good excuse to write one :).
Thanks,
Jim Matthews
Fetch Softworks
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Is there a way for Fetch to automatically detect new files (uploaded by my clients) and download them to my computer?
And if that's not enough to ask, I'd also like some sort of alert so I know when it happens.
Thanks,
Dave
Posted 19 years ago #