#Bbedit 10.5 mac os x#
#Bbedit 10.5 plus#
#Bbedit 10.5 mac#
#Bbedit 10.5 windows#

If you try to execute a file that does not have execute permissions, you will get the following error:īy default, all new text documents do not have execute permissions.

In order to execute a script, the file must have execute permissions. The two paths cannot be the same, or you will end up creating an empty file.Ĭommon Script Mistakes: Execute PermissionsĪnother common mistake is incorrect execute permissions. Replace /path/to/script with the path to the script with Macintosh line endings, and /path/to/new_script to where you want to save the new file. To change the line endings from the command line, execute this command in the Terminal: Scroll down and select 'UNIX,' and then save the script.

The fifth tool looks like a small document icon. The easiest is to open the document in BBEdit.

There are a few ways to change the line endings from Macintosh to UNIX. If you try to execute a script that has Macintosh line endings, you will get a 'Command not found' error: They are both valid in text documents, but UNIX will not treat a Macintosh line ending as the end of a line. There is a Macintosh new line character, ASCII 13, and there is a UNIX new line character, ASCII 8. Perhaps the most common scripting error occurs when a script is created with BBEdit or some other text editor and the file is saved with Macintosh line endings. I also had to make the scripts in BBEdit using Unix LF.

#Bbedit 10.5 mac#

Here's the shell script that SuperDuper! runs after it completes the copy:Īs someone completely unfamiliar with scripting on a mac I found this page to be a god-send.Īfter your scripts are in place you need to give them execute permissions: But what about afterwards, when we want to bring Parallels Desktop up just like it was? Turns out, that's even easier.

#Bbedit 10.5 windows#

So now SuperDuper! can clone the drive since the Parallels Desktop Windows XP virtual machine has been suspended and the program has been closed. So I figured, since AppleScript is always, well, flaky for me, I'd just put as much as I could in the shell script and call out to AppleScript only when necessary.Īll right.

#Bbedit 10.5 plus#

Plus I got a scary error about 'class released with no pool in place - just leaking'. Because when you do it that way it doesn't work. 'But John,' I can hear you asking, 'why not put these together into one simple AppleScript and just use 'delay 35' to create the pause?' I'll tell you why. Tell menu 'Parallels Desktop' of menu bar 1 Tell application process 'Parallels Desktop' Tell application 'Parallels Desktop' to activate

#Bbedit 10.5 mac os x#

Tested on Mac OS X 10.5.7 with Parallels Desktop 4.0. the 'Enable access for assistive devices' checkbox is checked in the Universal Access control panel Then I made a shell script for SuperDuper! to run before backup. 'I'll just direct Parallels from the Accessibility API! Sort of like the puppeteer in Being John Malkovich.'įirst I made sure that accessibility was enabled by going to the Universal Access preference pane in System Preferences. From there you can direct mouse clicks, radio button selection.in short, all sorts of mayhem. The approach is to cheat by using the Accessibility API built into Mac OS X. I was stymied until I remembered something that the indefatigable Matt Neuburg had written in AppleScript: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition in a chapter titled Unscriptable Applications. So I fired up Script Editor and went to open up Parallels Desktop's AppleScript Dictionary.Īpparently Parallels Desktop does not implement AppleScript. Since SuperDuper! allows you to run a script before and after a scheduled backup (have I mentioned how brilliant SuperDuper! is?) I'll use a script to suspend the virtual machine before the backup, and resume it afterward. And everyone knows that when you try to back up open files that may be changing, Bad Things Happen. But the problem was that Parallels Desktop was running all the time. The computer to be backed up was a Mac Mini running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. I wanted to do automatic scheduled backups with the awesomely amazing SuperDuper!.