Jonathan8 Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 (edited) Hi everyone, I am new to AppleScript and have recently created a back-up script, based on a tutorial written in the book "AppleScript: The Missing Manual". I've also read and did all the excercises present in "AppleScript for Absolute Starters", which means I have some basic understanding. What I would like to do is to compress the backed-up folder (preferably by automatically making a .zip archive and then a dialog w ndow where I wish to save the .zip file) I've searched some other forums (including this one), but I can't get it to work. Here is the relevant bit of my code: (...) set tempVar2 to display dialog "Would you like to compress your Opera preferences folder (using zip)? This file could be opened on almost any Mac or PC." buttons {"No", "Compress"} default button 1 set theButtonPressed to button returned of tempVar2 if theButtonPressed is "Compress" then do shell script ¬ ("/usr/bin/ditto -c -k -rsrc --keepParent " & ¬ selectedFile & " " & (choose folder)) else (...) Any suggestion is welcome, even another type of compression (although a compression method that could be opened on many computers is preferred). Thank you very much in advance. Edited February 4, 2007 by Jonathan8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 it would be easier to create an Automator workflow and then save it as a plugin for the Finder. Or just use the Finder's "create archive" command in the menu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PascalW Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 Hi everyone, I am new to AppleScript and have recently created a back-up script, based on a tutorial written in the book "AppleScript: The Missing Manual". I've also read and did all the excercises present in "AppleScript for Absolute Starters", which means I have some basic understanding. What I would like to do is to compress the backed-up folder (preferably by automatically making a .zip archive and then a dialog w ndow where I wish to save the .zip file) I've searched some other forums (including this one), but I can't get it to work. Here is the relevant bit of my code: (...) set tempVar2 to display dialog "Would you like to compress your Opera preferences folder (using zip)? This file could be opened on almost any Mac or PC." buttons {"No", "Compress"} default button 1 set theButtonPressed to button returned of tempVar2 if theButtonPressed is "Compress" then do shell script ¬ ("/usr/bin/ditto -c -k -rsrc --keepParent " & ¬ selectedFile & " " & (choose folder)) else (...) Any suggestion is welcome, even another type of compression (although a compression method that could be opened on many computers is preferred). Thank you very much in advance. You could use this: do shell script "zip -r -j "& ZipFolder&" "& ToBeZippedFolder &"" where ZipFolder coud be something like set zipfolder to (POSIX path of (choose folder with prompt "Where do you want to store the zip file?") & "nameofyourzipfile.zip") and ToBeZippedFolder set ToBeZippedFolder to (POSIX path of (choose folder with prompt "Choose the folder you want to zip")) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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