[Mr Ti]

Hi,

I have been using Macs for a few years now but have never spent the time to get to grips with any applescript functionality.

I have basic knowledge for writing simple batch files on PC's and I have a routine at work on my office PC that if I could transfer to my Mac would make my life a whole lot easier.

I think the best way forward is to explain what I do in the PC batch.

I run a task manger event for a backup.bat file each day to burn to CDR all the office work, the work is stored in several folders on the C: drive. It looks like this;

copy cserverbackup\admin\*.* e

where e: is the cd burner.

Now I have several lines in the batch for all the key files I want to backup.

How would I achieve this in OX.2.3 on my combo Ti? I know where all the items I want to backup are on my hard disk, e.g, Addressbook,stickies database, general files etc.

Is it best to use a Terminal script?

What would the code look like?

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

[Sal]

Here's an example of how to duplicate the contents of a folder on the startup disk to another disk.

tell application "Finder"
duplicate every item of folder "Admin" of folder "serverbackup" of the startup disk to disk "backup"
end tell

I suggest visiting the AppleScript website at:

www.apple.com/applescript/resources/

and the Macscripter Website which has hundreds of examples:

www.macscripter.net

[Mr Ti]

thanks, I'll check those sites out.