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DKnow75

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Jun 9, 2013
4
0
Hi folks,

I'm trying to implement the "Automating Backup of Flash Drives" on my Mac Mini i5 with Mac OS X 10.7.5. But, when I run it, it gives an error like "Can't get every file".

If I understood it well, the code should create a list of every item on the folder /Volumes/ in order to test later if some of these items has a file rsync.scpt to execute the backup.

I simplified the code to test just this part with some variations but I didn't succeed.

Code:
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_volumes
	tell application "Finder"
		try
			set the volume_list to every file of this_folder as list
			display dialog volume_list as text
			display dialog number of items in volume_list as text
			display dialog this_folder as text
			
			set the volume_list to every folder of this_folder
			display dialog volume_list as text
			display dialog number of items in volume_list as text
			display dialog this_folder as text

			set this_item to the original item of item 1 of volume_list
			display dialog this_item as text
			set this_item to the original item of item 2 of volume_list
			display dialog this_item as text
			
		end try
	end tell
end adding folder items to

Do you have any suggestion to make this part of the code to work properly?
 

kryten2

macrumors 65816
Mar 17, 2012
1,114
99
Belgium
Why not use the script from the link? What do you mean with when I run it?
It is not meant to be run manually but to be attached to a folder.
If you attached this folder action script to the /Volumes folder it gets triggered when items are added to the /Volumes folder like when plugging in a Flash drive. Please post the entire error message.
 

DKnow75

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Jun 9, 2013
4
0
Why not use the script from the link? What do you mean with when I run it?

I used the script from the link and I followed the instructions to use it (that's what I mean by 'run it'). I set the action script for the folder Volumes to execute the auto_backup script as mentioned on the link. But when I added an USB stick it did nothing. It didn't copy the USB stick's content to my HD as I specified on rsync.scpt. It didn't show any error message also.

As the rsync.app is working properly (I test it on my USB stick), I started to debug the auto_backup script to see what happened. At the debugging the script shown the message 'Can't get every file' for the variable 'volume_list' on the line:
Code:
set the volume_list to every file of this_folder

That's why I tried to simplify the script to test this line and other variations for it to see if it works.
 
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