Folder action stops working

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#1

Hi All,

This forum (and the people) have been extremely helpful. Thanks to all.

I have a folder action that copies any items added to another folder and renames them. It works great while it works. Unfortunately, it stops working after a while. I have bo clue why it stops. It is running on a OS X (Jaguar) Server.

Here’s a copy of the script.

on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
tell application “Finder”
repeat with this_item in these_items
set newCopy to (duplicate this_item to folder “OS_X Server:PDF Server:PDF Proofs:ToUpload:”)
set oldName to name of this_item
set newName to (text 1 thru 6 of oldName) & “.pdf”
set name of newCopy to newName
end repeat
end tell
end adding folder items to

Any thoughts?

BTW, I’ve realized that I need to add something to replace files if it already exists nut have yet to do so.

#2

Hi,

How do you get the folder action to work again? Folder actions need System Events to be running. System Events could be quitting.

gl,

#3

I just have to enable folder actions again. Any thoughts on why folder actions would get turned off?

#4

I’m not sure if this applies to your situation, but I had a folder action attached to a folder that was an alias to a folder on another machine on the network. If that machine was not available, the folder actions would stop. I would have to enable folder actions to get them to work again once the machine in question was back online.

Hope this helps,
Brad Bumgarner, CTA