In older versions of iTunes you had the option to perform a sync, similar to clicking the Sync button in iSync in Mac OS X 10.5 and newer. For me this was a perfect solution to remember syncing my phones since I connected my iPod once a day to update some smart playlists. To mimic this functionlity I wrote an AppleScript and then attached it as a folder action to the /Volumes folder.
Here's the script:
global bluetoothActive property blueutilPath : "$HOME/bin/blueutil" on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items set podName to "the name of your iPod" if podName is in (added_items as string) then if "on" is in (do shell script blueutilPath & " status") then set bluetoothActive to true else set bluetoothActive to false do shell script blueutilPath & " on" end if try tell application "Finder" if exists POSIX file "/tmp/sync" then set newAddresses to (do shell script "find $HOME'/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/Metadata' -newer /tmp/sync") set newEvent to (do shell script "find $HOME/Library/Calendars -newer /tmp/sync") if "ics" is in newEvent then display dialog "new event " & newEvent giving up after 5 my sync() else if "abcd" is in newAddresses then display dialog "new contact: " & newAddresses giving up after 5 my sync() end if else my sync() end if end tell on error errStr number errorNumber display dialog "find failed " & errStr & errorNumber giving up after 5 my sync() end try if not bluetoothActive then do shell script blueutilPath & " off" end if end if end adding folder items to on sync() tell application "iSync" try synchronize on error display dialog "Sync failed" end try repeat while (syncing) end repeat if (sync status is 2 or 3) then do shell script "touch /tmp/sync" else do shell script "rm /tmp/sync" end if end tell end sync
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