Why Not AppleScript? Script Options in Hazel Those small victories give me more confidence to try the next time. I’m just someone who has gained confidence by trying and having small victories.
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Don’t think I’m some accomplished developer now who knows how to write scripts. I confess that because I want you to realize that you can probably figure this out too. But guess what? I’d never written a successful shell script or Shortcut before. I solved the problem using a combination of Apple Shortcuts and a shell script. This was so obvious and yet it never occurred to me. He asked me why I don’t include in the script a test to find out if the server is available before trying to mount the drive. I was recently chatting with Paul Kim, the awesome developer of Hazel, about my problem, and he made a suggestion that made me slap my head that I didn’t think of it before. Again with the pausing and un-pausing dance. The main reason I’d tell them to live with it is that again I get bombarded with error messages because my script can’t mount the share on the NAS, and Hazel warns me about this catastrophe. Personally, I’d just leave it running and tell them to live with it, but Steve is a much better host than I am. Whenever we have friends or family spend the night, Steve shuts it down so the noise and lights don’t bother our house guests. The other problem is that our NAS is in our spare bedroom.
I have to then put in a reminder to un-pause those rules when I come back home. My only recourse is to open Hazel and pause every rule that is associated with moving files to my NAS. As soon as I leave my home network, I am bombarded with error messages because that script can’t find my NAS to mount the share.
Set errorMsg to "Synology Wake Up error: " & errorText & " (" & errorNum & ") "
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Mount volume "smb://192.168.4.95/synodo-al-backup/" as user name "podfeet" with password "PASSWORD" The AppleScript simply tells the Finder to try to mount the server by its IP address, and if it can’t do it, throw an error to tell me that it failed. I didn’t write this AppleScript it was actually written for me many years ago by one of the lovely developers who works on Chronosync. In order to perform this magic, I have a tiny AppleScript in my rules for each folder that tells the application Finder to mount the volume for the share on my NAS. When a podcast episode ages past two weeks, my rules tell Hazel to sweep up after me and whisk all of these files over to my network-attached storage (NAS). I still want to keep these files but they don’t need to live on my internal laptop drive. In the old days, I had to remember to go clean out these directories by hand, but with Hazel, I have it all automated. You can imagine that if I didn’t pay attention, I’d soon be out of disk space. The audio and image files for the NosillaCast and Chit Chat Across the Pond add up to around 4GB per week. I create a lot of data every week with the podcasts. While Steve and I use Hazel in this way, I have another huge use case for this delightful tool. Many people learned to use Hazel during the dawn of the paperless movement, because Hazel can recognize text patterns, set the name of the scanned document to match, and then file away scanned documents into folders according to those names. Hazel watches folders you specify and then takes action on the items in those folders according to rules you specify. You’ve probably heard of it and may use it yourself, but just in case you haven’t I’ll briefly describe what it does and the problem it solves for me. I’m a huge fan of the well-known app Hazel from Noodlesoft.
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