[Mike Peel]

My server FTP's me backups every so often. I want to move these into a folder based on the date. I've got it working, sort of, using the following code:

on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
tell application "Finder"
if not (exists folder "Done" of this_folder) then
make new folder at this_folder with properties {name:"Done"}
end if
set the destination_folder to folder "Done" of this_folder as alias
set the destination_directory to POSIX path of the destination_folder
end tell
repeat with i from 1 to number of items in these_items
set this_item to item i of these_items
set the item_info to info for this_item
if this_item is not the destination_folder and the name extension of ¬
the item_info is not in {"zip", "sit"} then
set the item_path to the quoted form of the POSIX path of this_item
set the destination_path to the quoted form of ¬
(destination_directory & (name of the item_info) & ".zip")
do shell script ("/usr/bin/ditto -c -k -rsrc --keepParent " & ¬
item_path & " " & destination_path)
end if
end repeat
end adding folder items to

that code's directly from an apple example page.

The problem: it takes time for the file to complete uploading to me. Folder actions seems to stop paying attention to the file by the time the uploading is complete. Is there any way to get around this...?

[Diggory Laycock]

Possibly... (I can't guarantee that this will work)

You could have the folder action script trigger another script (an applet)

This second applet could have an "on idle" handler - which means it runs repeatedly, with a pause of your choosing between each execution.

The applet script could have a few 'properties', which will persist across the executions.

You could use these properties in the idle handler to check to see if the downloaded file hasn't got any bigger (i.e. the download has finished) - when that happens rename the file and move it to the right place, then get the Applet to quit itself.