[Alan Stewart]

I'm trying to automate daily maintenance for an office full of Macs. What I'd like to do is use iDo script scheduler to run Norton Speed Disk. I can run the schedule fine, I can launch the application fine, but after Speed Disk is finished, I can't get it to quit so I can perform another action. Here's the script that works:

tell application "Speed Disk"
activate
defragment disk "Your Hairy God"
end tell

Simple enough. When I any other commands to the end, I get an error that says Speed Disk can't do that while the disk is busy. How do I tell AppleScript that I want to do something after Speed Disk is finished?

Thanks in advance for any help.

A

i presume you've tried the built in options in speed disc where under options>when finished you can set speed disc to quit itself, shut down or restart the comp?

if you've tried that and speed disc isn't quitting i s'pose a pretty clumsy way of doing it would be to set speed disk to restart the comp when done and then have another script in your startup items folder which carried on with the rest of your backup routine when the machine restarted.

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