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Preference Pane alternative to launchd
Authored by: Eric3 on Jan 10, '07 07:20:52PM
I'm surprised no one has mentioned <a href="http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15188">Do Something When</a> yet. It's a prefpane that lets you connect drives mounting/unmounting or apps launching with each other. I use it to run rsync scripts, wrapped as Automator actions, whenever my iPod or external hard drive mounts.

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Preference Pane alternative to launchd
Authored by: tinker on Jan 11, '07 07:55:41AM

I'll second the recommendation. I've fiddled with rsync for a while and, well, maybe I'm getting old and just don't like cobbling together my own scripts, or maybe I'm getting lazy and starting to prefer a GUI over the command line, but, DoSomethingWhen and SuperDuper! are an awfully nice combination.



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Do Something When!?!
Authored by: mikerose on Jan 12, '07 07:29:34AM
Argh!!! I hate it when something simple comes along. :-)
There's also a Folder Action from Apple that does something very similar -- http://www.apple.com/applescript/folderactions/05.html

New post at TUAW with the details:

http://www.tuaw.com/2007/01/12/tuaw-tip-the-easy-way-to-backup-on-mount/

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