Guaranteed Daily Bunch?

[SteveMattan]

For historical reasons, I use the application NeoFinder to catalog my images (photography is a hobby). And the version I have does not automatically update the catalogs. So I have Bunch which runs every day at 9 AM to update the catalogs (it does so via AppleScript). This works quite nicely.

However, there are some days that I do not start my day until after 9. And I shut down my Mac every night. So this Bunch does not run. And thus I am sad.

My question: Is there a way to guarantee that a Bunch will run everyday, other than having it run at startup, or triggering it manually?

Thanks in advance for any insight. And sorry it if I missed this in the documentation.

SteveM

[ttscoff]

No, Bunch can only trigger timers while it's running. For your needs I would highly recommend looking into using launchd. An app like LaunchControl makes it very easy to set up a recurring task that can accommodate system downtime and restarts. https://soma-zone.com/LaunchControl/

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-Brett

On 14 Jan 2022, at 19:06, SteveMattan wrote: For historical reasons, I use the application NeoFinder to catalog my images (photography is a hobby). And the version I have does not automatically update the catalogs. So I have Bunch which runs every day at 9 AM to update the catalogs (it does so via AppleScript). This works quite nicely. However, there are some days that I do not start my day until after 9. And I shut down my Mac every night. So this Bunch does not run. And thus I am sad. My question: Is there a way to guarantee that a Bunch will run everyday, other than having it run at startup, or triggering it manually? Thanks in advance for any insight. And sorry it if I missed this in the documentation. SteveM -- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: #190 You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Message ID: ***@***.***>

[SteveMattan]

Thanks. I now have a license to LaunchControl. It is currently 14° F in my neck of the woods, so today is a good day to learn something new.

Thank you again and stay well,

SteveM

[SteveMattan]

Well, it took a bit longer than planned, life intervenes sometimes, but I finally had some time to look into launchd and play with LaunchContol. And I'm liking it.

Thank you very much for pointing me to this.

Now back to the rabbit hole ...

:-)