I need to collect my students home workn which includes images, small film clips and text:
I use a FileMaker database
I have a FM script which
1 - copies the student ID
2 - opens the URL where the message is located
3 - I added this applescript I found here:
[code]...
Info:Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I'm trying to write a script that will open a specific folder. The only problem is that it needs to be run on multiple machines with different Hard Drive names. Here is a sample of the script that will work on my machine.
tell application "Finder" activate open folder "HDD:Volumes:USERData:Users:Staff:Name" end tell
Is there anyway to change "HDD" to whatever the current users Hard Drive is named?
I am running OS 10.6.8, using Automator to create a Folder Action. The input is a single folder containing 2 or more PDF files. I drop this folder onto the folder with the action attached. All of the PDFs are combined and the resulting PDF is copied to a new location.
It works very well with one problem. The name of the combined PDF is an automatically generated system name. I would like this PDF file name to change to the name of the original folder that contained the original PDFs.
To summarize: "Folder A" has the action attached. "Folder B" contains 2 or more PDFs. I drop Folder B onto Folder A. Automator creates a new combined PDF. I would like this to be named "Folder B.pdf"
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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Mac OS X (10.7.3), 27'
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
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I wish to use the Time Machine function to backup only one specific folder on my computer, the DROPBOX folder. How can I implement this and inform Time Machine of my choice?
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Mac OS X (10.7.3), I7, 2.8 GHz (model 2010), 8 Gb RAM
