On 2008-05-15 12:01:11 +0100, "auctions@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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<auctions@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
> On May 15, 10:43 am, adm <a...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> I take a lot of photos in Nikon NEF format with a D300, then copy the
>> images from the CF cards to my MBP. I then go through and process the
>> NEFS in Nikon Capture NX and convert some of them to JPG for im****t
>> into iPhoto. These get dumped into a folder called (unsurprisingly)
>> "for iPhoto im****t". All of the NEFs then get dumped onto my NEF
>> archive drive. The NEFs are large files - about 13M each or so, so once
>> I have finished with them, I want them off the limited storage space on
>> the MBP.
>>
>> I created an automator application that searches the "for iPhoto
>> im****t" folder for new content, then im****ts them into iPhoto and
>> deletes the originals. Also another one that does the same for my NEF
>> archive folder - copies all these to the external drive, then deletes
>> the originals on the MBP.
>>
>> This all works fine, but I want to schedule it to run automatically -
>> how can i do this ?
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> An iCal alarm can run an application.
Thanks. Although I think i'd probably like to be able set it to run at
startup or shutdown - I don't suppose ical can do that ? (Off to have a
look see....)
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