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Posted 08 December 2002 - 01:19 PM

I would like to be able to delete some files on a weekly basis. Could I write some kind of applescript to do this? If so how? I really have not had much luck with it?
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Posted 08 December 2002 - 06:58 PM

You could write a cron task to do it. However, if you're not comfortable with Unix, that may not be the best course of action.
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Posted 08 December 2002 - 07:36 PM

CronniX - GUI front end to run shell commands or scripts at certain times

Use recommeded version for your version of X.
http://www.koch-schmidt.de/cronnix/

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Posted 09 December 2002 - 09:02 PM

Thanks for the link. I haven't tried it yet but I have downladed it. Thanks again I didn't want to try to use unix.
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