{"id":101,"date":"2010-12-05T19:25:46","date_gmt":"2010-12-05T19:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.flirc.tv\/?p=101"},"modified":"2022-10-07T18:09:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T18:09:47","slug":"apple-script-to-dropbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.flirc.tv\/index.php\/2010\/12\/05\/apple-script-to-dropbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Script to Dropbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I try to get the most out of my media server which doubles as my webserver. I use it to stream videos, for web mount hard drives, and since it&#8217;s always on, for downloading torrents.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a handy Apple Script I created which automatically moves your downloaded torrents to your dropbox folder. Set up your torrent application (I use transmission) to automatically watch the dropbox folder for new torrents.<\/p>\n<p>The end result, I download a torrent on any of my macs, they automatically start downloading on my server.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the apple script code:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.flirc.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Apple-Script.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106\" title=\"Apple Script for Torrents\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.flirc.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Apple-Script.png?resize=517%2C190\" alt=\"\" width=\"517\" height=\"190\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Drop this in \/Library\/Scripts\/Folder Actions\/<\/p>\n<p>Then on both your Desktop and Downloads folder, right click and select Folder Action Setup&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.flirc.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Setting-up-Folder-Actions.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107\" title=\"Setting up Folder Actions\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.flirc.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Setting-up-Folder-Actions.png?resize=400%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then select the apple script you saved this as in \/Library\/Scripts\/Folder Actions\/<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; UPDATE &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve actually had quite a bit of time getting this working on my latest laptop refresh. I believe the problem was due to permissions, however, I&#8217;m including a copy of the script that seems to be working. Please report problems and remember to replace the locations to the ones that pertain to you.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Download\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.flirc.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/torrent2dropbox.scpt_.zip\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I try to get the most out of my media server which doubles as my webserver. I use it to stream videos, for web mount hard drives, and since it&#8217;s always on, for downloading torrents. Here is a handy Apple Script I created which automatically moves your downloaded torrents to your dropbox folder. Set up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppp9g-1D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.flirc.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.flirc.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.flirc.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flirc.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flirc.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flirc.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1073,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flirc.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.flirc.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flirc.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.flirc.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}