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From: j on 9 Feb 2010 13:02
Kir�ly <me(a)home.spamsucks.ca> wrote:

> commiebastard <oraclmaster(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > What are your experiences?
>
> Some stuff I have done with Automator:
>
> -Log on to a specific web site every morning and push four different
> buttons
> -bring the login window to front and sleep my Mac when I press ctrl-F13
> -press iMovie's import button (saved as an iCal plugin so that I can
> record TV shows with iMovie in the middle of the night)

- Backup recently modified files in a project folder onto a mounted disk
image. Each time it's run, a new date/time-stamped folder is created - a
sort of poor-man's incremental backup, but very handy on big, complex
projects where you get paranoid about overwriting something.

- Copy back a clean set of cookies after a Safari reset.

- Swap between Flash 8 and Flash 10 (because sometimes Flash 10 can be
like watching a slideshow rather than a movie)

From: Zala on 9 Feb 2010 14:37
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 19:02:34 +0100, j wrote
(in article <1jdnqzo.v30r1y1k1o2rsN%nospam53709(a)invalid.invalid>):

> Kir�ly <me(a)home.spamsucks.ca> wrote:
>
>> commiebastard <oraclmaster(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>> What are your experiences?
>>
>> Some stuff I have done with Automator:
>>
>> -Log on to a specific web site every morning and push four different
>> buttons
>> -bring the login window to front and sleep my Mac when I press ctrl-F13
>> -press iMovie's import button (saved as an iCal plugin so that I can
>> record TV shows with iMovie in the middle of the night)
>
> - Backup recently modified files in a project folder onto a mounted disk
> image. Each time it's run, a new date/time-stamped folder is created - a
> sort of poor-man's incremental backup, but very handy on big, complex
> projects where you get paranoid about overwriting something.
>
> - Copy back a clean set of cookies after a Safari reset.
>
> - Swap between Flash 8 and Flash 10 (because sometimes Flash 10 can be
> like watching a slideshow rather than a movie)
>

- Join PDF's
- Join JPEG's to a multipage PDF
- Nightly backups of some folders to Dropbox

--
Zala
zala(at)xs(four)all(dot)nl

From: Nick Naym on 9 Feb 2010 14:52
In article bc3b3502-907a-41ff-afc7-1bd30699f697(a)u9g2000yqb.googlegroups.com,
commiebastard at oraclmaster(a)gmail.com wrote on 2/8/10 9:52 PM:

> What are your experiences?
>
> I mean, it's supposed to be intuitive to learn, but I find it really
> counterintuitive for the stuff I do.

I found it intuitive enough to enable me -- someone who is still not
comfortable using Terminal -- to quickly create an "application" that
automatically quits any open MS apps and perform a scheduled backup of my MS
identity database (which I have excluded from my Time Machine backups). (I
admit that the "real" solution for me is to trash my Entourage email client
altogether and move on to something that's better designed, but until I
do....)

> I've been a Macbook Pro user since 2004, and between the bash
> scripting, various shell scripting, and Applescript, I've been able to
> do everything from manage a > 10 GB database, host a message board,
> program 3D games and manage thousands of photographs as a batch and
> I've never touched automator.

More power to you. The fact that you are so well-versed in scripting and
command-lining suggests that you don't need Automator...or any GUI, for that
matter. Perhaps you should unhook OS X's entire front end?


> Why is it taking up space on my computer?

Not nearly as much as OS X's GUI.

--
iMac (24", 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 320 GB HDD) � OS X (10.5.8)

From: Tom Harrington on 9 Feb 2010 17:13
In article <tom_stiller-615784.15390509022010(a)news.individual.net>,
Tom Stiller <tom_stiller(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

> In article <C7972724.5261C%nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid>,
> Nick Naym <nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>
> >
> > I found it intuitive enough to enable me -- someone who is still not
> > comfortable using Terminal -- to quickly create an "application" that
> > automatically quits any open MS apps and perform a scheduled backup of my MS
> > identity database (which I have excluded from my Time Machine backups). (I
> > admit that the "real" solution for me is to trash my Entourage email client
> > altogether and move on to something that's better designed, but until I
> > do....)
>
> I replaced the Microsoft User Data file on my wife's account with a
> sparse bundle disk image mounted as her ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data.
>
> Now TimeMachine just does its thing, the backup remains a reasonable
> size and I can forget about a separate backup scheme.

Does Time Machine have problems with this folder? I'm not sure why
these steps are necessary.

--
Tom "Tom" Harrington
Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002
http://www.atomicbird.com/
From: Nick Naym on 9 Feb 2010 17:17
In article tom_stiller-615784.15390509022010(a)news.individual.net, Tom
Stiller at tom_stiller(a)yahoo.com wrote on 2/9/10 3:39 PM:

> In article <C7972724.5261C%nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid>,
> Nick Naym <nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>
>>
>> I found it intuitive enough to enable me -- someone who is still not
>> comfortable using Terminal -- to quickly create an "application" that
>> automatically quits any open MS apps and perform a scheduled backup of my MS
>> identity database (which I have excluded from my Time Machine backups). (I
>> admit that the "real" solution for me is to trash my Entourage email client
>> altogether and move on to something that's better designed, but until I
>> do....)
>
> I replaced the Microsoft User Data file on my wife's account with a
> sparse bundle disk image mounted as her ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data.
>
> Now TimeMachine just does its thing, the backup remains a reasonable
> size and I can forget about a separate backup scheme.

Everything about MS is so unnecessarily complicated: You have to jump
through hoops and create Rube Goldberg mechanisms/procedures/protocols to do
just about anything. Even then, it's a constant headache and time sink to
get just about anything done (as evidenced by the discussions at
microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage).

Once I figure out how to use MacSOUP (the manual is unclear) I'll trash
Entourage, and move to Mail.app and MacSOUP.



--
iMac (24", 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 320 GB HDD) � OS X (10.5.8)

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