Beginner AppleScript question

[tachyon]

Hello there

The problem we have is related to AppleEvents.

We have scraped together enough knowledge to write a script that automatically copies a specific file to a mounted server, and use iDo script scheduler to run it daily.

The file, already compressed, is about 850MB. Problem is, we get an error message including the text 'AppleEvent Timed Out' (sorry I don't have the text in front of me) So it doesn't appear to be completing the copy because when we check the destination folder, the copied file is smaller by several MB.

How do we get it to ignore the time taken to copy and just DO IT!?

 

[Arden]

I've gotten that message too when I start up my computer—I've got one Apple Script and one "might be an Apple Script" that run when it starts, and sometimes that message pops up. So I run the script again.

I'm not sure how you'd tell it to ignore the copy time and just do it, or if you even can. You might need to increase your bandwidth.

Actually, I have an idea. How long does it usually take to copy that file? You might be able to use the Apple Script term delay X (where X is minutes) to keep the script from doing anything until you're sure the file will be finished copying.