Script for daily quit not working ... thoughts?

J

Jeffrey Gordon

First, the basics:

OS 10.3.9, Entourage 11.1.0 (040913) [but this hasn't worked in a long
time]

Second, the problem:

I would like Entourage to automatically shut down every workday at
7:30am. (I'm doing this so that I can check my messages through a web
interface when I'm not at home.) As I sometimes dart out of the house,
I want the computer to clean up after me and autoquit in the event that
I leave it running.

I looked in Entourage's default Scheduling behaviors and none of them is
"quit at a designated time." However, one of them IS "run an external
applescript." So I created an AppleScript:

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
quit
end tell

Saved it as an application and then used Entourage's scheduler to run
this script every day at 7:30am.

When I first created this (Entourage X and OS 10.2, I believe), all
worked like a charm. I don't remember which I upgraded first, the OS or
Entourage, but it started NOT working a few versions ago. The scheduler
will run, the script will fire. Entourage will stop receiving mail.
But Entourage won't really quit. The little open app indicating
triangle is gone, but the mail window is still open. Trying to start
the application again isn't fruitful (again, the process is still
running).

All I can do is go through the Force Quit process.

I've attempted to fix this by trying to tweak the AppleScript (to be
honest, I don't recall what I've done and what I haven't done by now).
But all attempts at repair are unsuccessful.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!

~Jeff
 
B

Barry Wainwright

The only difference I would make would be to save the script as a compiled
script, not an application.
 
J

Jeffrey Gordon

Nope... same problem. :( Thanks for the suggestion!

Barry Wainwright said:
The only difference I would make would be to save the script as a compiled
script, not an application.

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Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details)
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From: Jeffrey Gordon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 07:50:31 -0400
Subject: Script for daily quit not working ... thoughts?

First, the basics:

OS 10.3.9, Entourage 11.1.0 (040913) [but this hasn't worked in a long
time]

Second, the problem:

I would like Entourage to automatically shut down every workday at
7:30am. (I'm doing this so that I can check my messages through a web
interface when I'm not at home.) As I sometimes dart out of the house,
I want the computer to clean up after me and autoquit in the event that
I leave it running.

I looked in Entourage's default Scheduling behaviors and none of them is
"quit at a designated time." However, one of them IS "run an external
applescript." So I created an AppleScript:

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
quit
end tell

Saved it as an application and then used Entourage's scheduler to run
this script every day at 7:30am.

When I first created this (Entourage X and OS 10.2, I believe), all
worked like a charm. I don't remember which I upgraded first, the OS or
Entourage, but it started NOT working a few versions ago. The scheduler
will run, the script will fire. Entourage will stop receiving mail.
But Entourage won't really quit. The little open app indicating
triangle is gone, but the mail window is still open. Trying to start
the application again isn't fruitful (again, the process is still
running).

All I can do is go through the Force Quit process.

I've attempted to fix this by trying to tweak the AppleScript (to be
honest, I don't recall what I've done and what I haven't done by now).
But all attempts at repair are unsuccessful.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!

~Jeff
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