[dodo_nutter]

I've been teaching myself applescript recently and one of the things i wanted to do was back up a folder called Uni (my Uni notes funnily enough) from my Powerbooks hard drive on to my iPod as a back up whenever i plug in my iPod. The problem i was having was that i can't figure out how to detect the iPod. ie i can get the script to find the folder and copy it to another location (ie desktop) but i can't get it to put it on my iPod. I can't even get a script to give me a 'true' when i do an 'exists' query trying to find the iPod. Can applescripts not detect external hard drives or aam i being stupid?

Sorry, i'm very new to this.

[larkost]

Here is a quick script that should get you in the right direction:

Code:
set myIPodName to "the name of my ipod"

tell application "System Events"
	set thisArray to the disks
	set myIPod to null
	repeat with thisDisk in thisArray
		if displayed name of thisDisk as string is myIPodName then
			set myIPod to thisDisk
			exit repeat
		end if
	end repeat
	
	if myIPod is not null then
		get POSIX path of myIPod
	end if
end tell

You probably should have a good look through the dictionary for "System Events" as it contains a lot of useful things.

The other hint (that I will let you solve yourself) is that there are a few approaches to try ing to detect when an iPod get mounted. One is to set a folder action on /Volumes... this is a bit hackish, and I am not sure it will work in all cases. The second is to create a "stay alive" script with an on-idle handler... there is plenty of documentation on this out there to be googled.