[selowitch]

I have an external FireWire hard drive. It would be great to be able to run my backup via SuperDuper automaticallhy whenever the drive is mounted. Is this possible? I'm currently fooling around with an AppleScript that looks something like this:

Code:
on adding folder items to "LaCie HD" after receiving "Lacie HD"
tell application "SuperDuper"
activate
run
end tell
end adding folder items to

Of course, it doesn't work yet because I pretty much made it up. Anybody know what to do next?

[numero]

[PHP]on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
--if item -1 of these_items as string is "Backup 095:" then
if these_items as string is "Backup 095:" then
tell application "SuperDuper"
activate
run
end tell
end if
end adding folder items to[/PHP]

Attach the script to /Volumes.

Don't know about the SuperDuper part since I have never heard of it.

Look here http://www.apple.com/applescript/folderactions/
for help on folder action scripts.

-numero

[selowitch]

Thanks, numero. That'll come in handy.

I ended up investing a few bucks in Peripherally Speaking ($6.95), which is a nifty little app that can do all kinds of things when devices are attached/mounted/unmounted, including running an AppleScript or launching a backup utility.