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Custom Backup QuickPicks Apps
You can customize your Backup3 (part of the enhanced .Mac package) QuickPicks to provide a tidy way to back up collections of your own choice. For example, I wanted a QuickPick that would back up iPhoto metadata, without the actual photos (I have 17GB of photos!).

Looking through the existing QuickPicks packages in /Library -> Application Support -> Backup -> QuickPicks, you can see examples of how other ones are done, make your own, and put them in ~/Library -> Application Support -> Backup -> QuickPicks, and Backup then adds them to the list of available QuickPicks.

As an example, here's the content of the DefinitionPlist.strings file for my iPhoto Metadata QuickPick. Now it's a simple mouse click to back up this data using Backup3.

[robg adds: I haven't tested this yet, but plan on doing so shortly. From looking at it, it looks like the easiest way to create your own QuickPick would be to copy one of Apple's into your own directory, rename the package, and then modify all the relevant files inside the bundle.
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Custom Backup QuickPicks
Authored by: mark hunte on Sep 27, '05 11:07:56AM

Ok thats nice to know you can do that.

But it took me 30 seconds or less to choose the same files using the 'Custom Plan' and 'file and folders' selection.



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Custom plan
Authored by: leary on Sep 28, '05 05:06:04AM

"But it took me 30 seconds or less to choose the same files using the 'Custom Plan' and 'file and folders' selection."

I have to agree. What's the benefit of messing around with QuickPicks?



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Custom plan
Authored by: mark hunte on Sep 28, '05 09:28:02AM

hint above in it self is not that much of a time saver.
I followed the link in the comment from PancakeMan.
and discovered that you can use these files in a better way.
Instead of just backing up Single or multi folders holding various files.

You can use it to scan your user home folder for a type of file/files and back only those up. (this uses a slightly different DefinitionPlist.strings format )

It took me 30secs to figure it out and make a Quickpick plugin to look for all my Apple script files.

When you get it going do not worry when the scan reaches high numbers, this is just the number of files it has looked at, not what its going to back up.

Also as well as changing the DefinitionPlist.strings remember to change (in my case ) the English Proj->InfoPlist.strings to reflect the dialog and name of the Quickpick you see in Backup3



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How do I find the numerical creator code, etc.
Authored by: pumasalad on Oct 07, '05 09:12:34AM

I'm trying to set this up for all my AppleScripts and AppleScript applications... knowing the .scpt extension is easy enough, but how can I define backing up only 'APPL's with the creator of 'aplt'?

or, how do I look up the numerical creatorCode and typeCode?

here's the first part of the line from the quickpick about AppleWorks:

Qualifier = "(creatorCode = 1112490575) or (typeCode = 1129796435)";

...now, what numbers do I need to use for AppleScript applications?



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QuickPicks for Mellel
Authored by: PancakeMan on Sep 27, '05 11:38:22AM
I don't use QuickPicks (I don't use .mac), but some Mellel users may be interested in this thread on the topic.

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QuickPicks for Mellel
Authored by: mark hunte on Sep 27, '05 12:22:36PM

Now That is neat,
I just changed it, to look for all my Apple script files scattered about in my Home folder and back them up as a QuickPick



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Custom Backup QuickPicks
Authored by: slickslack on Oct 05, '05 05:08:56AM

I'm trying to figure out how to get a quickpick that will find all my Final cut pro projects and DVD Studio Projects that are scattered over 4 HDs without identifying them all individually.

Looking at the excel quickpick you can do it by file extension but i can't figure out what the extension is for FCP or DVDSP or Logic for that matter?

How does one get this info?



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Custom Backup QuickPicks
Authored by: jhugg on Oct 07, '05 09:05:37AM

I've just started a page dedicated to custom QuickPicks.

Check it out: http://www.johnhugg.com/quickpicks/



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