Script that puts metadata on a label to be printed with a Dymo LabelWriter

Hi,
I’ve put together an Applescript that pulls some metadata from one or several pictures selected in Aperture and prints it on a Dymo LabelWriter. The idea is that you then can stick this printed label on the back of prints you make from photos stored in Aperture.
Anyone who is interested to use this, and tweak it to his or her liking can download it from my blog:
http://web.mac.com/claesfredrik/iWeb/Miscellanies/Main%20blog%20page/B224D0AE-73 30-4154-A44D-D00A04BB21FA.html
cheers,
ceffe
20" iMac G5 2.1 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Ceffe,
I am so pleased your posted this. I followed your easy instructions and "boom" a label printed with the metadata as setup. Fantastic apart from the fact i don't have the label size you have designed. How can i change this ?
Can i copy/paste the fields within the dymo software or is there any special tagging scheme going on under the hood ?
Again many thanks for such a great nifty wee stoatir of a script.
J

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## and entering in the requested logon id for the user.
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## snapin http://www.quest.com/powershell/activeroles-server.aspx
Add-PSSnapin Quest.ActiveRoles.ADManagement -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
$ErrorActionPreference = "SilentlyContinue"
# Retrieve Username to search for, error checks to make sure the username
# is not blank and that it exists in Active Directory
Function Get-Username {
$Global:Username = Read-Host "Enter username you want to search for"
if ($Username -eq $null){
Write-Host "Username cannot be blank, please re-enter username!!!!!"
Get-Username}
$UserCheck = Get-QADUser -SamAccountName $Username
if ($UserCheck -eq $null){
Write-Host "Invalid username, please verify this is the logon id for the account"
Get-Username}
get-username resultsize unlimited
$computers = Get-QADComputer | where {$_.accountisdisabled -eq $false}
foreach ($comp in $computers)
$Computer = $comp.Name
$ping = new-object System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping
$Reply = $null
$Reply = $ping.send($Computer)
if($Reply.status -like 'Success'){
#Get explorer.exe processes
$proc = gwmi win32_process -computer $Computer -Filter "Name = 'explorer.exe'"
#Search collection of processes for username
ForEach ($p in $proc) {
$temp = ($p.GetOwner()).User
if ($temp -eq $Username){
write-host "$Username is logged on $Computer"

If you are querying by user "resultset size" will be of no use.
You also have functions that are never used and the body code doe snot look for users.
Here is what you scrip looks like if printed well. It is just a jumble of pasted together and unrelated items.
## Find out what computers a user is logged into on your domain by running the script
## and entering in the requested logon id for the user.
## This script requires the free Quest ActiveRoles Management Shell for Active Directory
## snapin http://www.quest.com/powershell/activeroles-server.aspx
Add-PSSnapin Quest.ActiveRoles.ADManagement -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
$ErrorActionPreference = "SilentlyContinue"
# Retrieve Username to search for, error checks to make sure the username
# is not blank and that it exists in Active Directory
Function Get-Username {
$Global:Username = Read-Host "Enter username you want to search for"
if ($Username -eq $null) {
Write-Host "Username cannot be blank, please re-enter username!!!!!"
Get-Username
$UserCheck = Get-QADUser -SamAccountName $Username
if ($UserCheck -eq $null) {
Write-Host "Invalid username, please verify this is the logon id for the account"
Get-Username
get-username resultsize unlimited
$computers = Get-QADComputer | where { $_.accountisdisabled -eq $false }
foreach ($comp in $computers) {
$Computer = $comp.Name
$ping = new-object System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping
$Reply = $null
$Reply = $ping.send($Computer)
if ($Reply.status -like 'Success') {
#Get explorer.exe processes
$proc = gwmi win32_process -computer $Computer -Filter "Name = 'explorer.exe'"
#Search collection of processes for username
ForEach ($p in $proc) {
$temp = ($p.GetOwner()).User
if ($temp -eq $Username) {
write-host "$Username is logged on $Computer"
I suggest finding the original code then use the learning link at the top of this page to help you understand how it works in Powershell.
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Ways to run a shell script that starts a python script

I have a shell script that is used to launch a python (2.5.1 installed via Fink) script (IDLE). The shell script, the IDLE script, and the python binary are all in /sw/bin as usual. This all has to be done AFTER X11 has been launched. I have to make this easy for my students to use.
In each account's home .xinitrc file, I have the lines
source .profile
vpython2.5 *
and this works, but it calls the vpython2.5 script every time X11 is launched. I've tried adding the vpython2.5 command to the X11 Applications menu, but this works ONLY if I add /sw/bin to the script name. Apparently the menu doesn't "know" about the current PATH setting. The keyboard shortcut I put in the menu neither shows up nor works either. So much for that option.
Now I've discovered Platypus and it looked promising, but I'm obiously not using it correctly and from the documentation, I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.
So here's the ultimate question. Is there a way to use Platypus to encapsulate the vpython2.5 script, preferably also starting up X11, so students will only have to click on the new app's icon? This is how OpenOffice.org starts up. It seemed simple enough to do in Platypus, but I never saw the IDLE window open up.

I added a shortcut key "j" for the "xman" app in X11, and it seems to work fine. Did you press the command key with the shortcut key? Are you sure the shortcut key you selected does not overlap with others in the menubar?
There should be no problems creating an application with Platypus using a shell script. In my experience, you have to source all necessary files, assuming that the shell script does not recognize your terminal settings. You can also launch X11.app in the shell script with the following command:
command open -a X11
It is a good idea to pause the shell script until X11 finishes launching. To do this, you need a command like,
command sleep 5
Otherwise, if you try to start X11-dependent apps in the shell script while X11 is launching, it will fail. There may be better ways to do this.
Hope this helps.

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Is there an AppleScript or Automator Script that will wake a Mac from Sleep?

Frank and All,
The following answer to your question above is complicated, but I hope it explains why my question was formed with so much frustration in it.
I have an OpenOffice(OO) Macro that was launched with Calendar at 6pm each business night. It ran properly in all Apples operating systems until I Hit Maverick(OSX10.9). From then on, the AppleScript would run from one to 3 days, then would disappear from the Calendar entry. The Calendar alert would still run, but the "OpenFile" section of the alert would disappear. I also was running elgato EyeTV HD during the day, so I would use energy saver to put my MacBook Pro to sleep at 12 Midnight and wake it again at 9am. I picked up a used Mac Mini to do the EyeTV stuff, provide AppleTV the files in H264 format through iTunes' media share, and found it had plenty of power to do the 6pm automated stuff simultaneously as well. Because I still wanted to run the OpenOffice Macro on my MacBook Pro at 6pm, and wanted to use it for a host of other things when I was on the road, I wanted it to sleep most of the time and only wake up automatically to run the 6pm OO Macro. When I called Apple about the issue I was having with Maverick and Calendar loosing the OpenFile command as part of the Alert Message, they told me the no longer supported answering AppleScript Questions but they now would support Automator questions. I pointed out that the OpenFile would also fail after one to three days if I used a Calendar Alert to launch an Automator App. At first, I did not like Automator, but now I see why Apple is pushing us to use it. Automator adds a TIME STAMP ID to the Apps developed in Automator so the first time you launch the App after a change to it, you must reply to a dialog message saying that this is the first time you are running this version of the App. If a Scammer has replaced your app with one that can reek havoc on your computer, the replacement app will not run unless you are there to agree that you know where the modified app came from and click the OK button to continue (BRILLIANT, Enhanced Security idea on Apples part). I also noticed that after Mountain Lion, the Applescript delay timing was all screwed up as well. Well I tried to use LaunchD Task Scheduler to circumvent the Calendar Problem and that worked until I upgraded to Yosemite Last week. Then LaunchD no longer worked and I am only into a few days of using The Calendar Launched Automator App to see if it will continue to run.
But I think I solved the dilemma I was having with opening an Automator App in a Sleeping Mac. I Googled up the following question, "AppleScript to wake up computer". I went thru several complex responses until I found this on that is INCREDIBLE EASEY! What came back was a brettterpstra.com response from Feb 20th,2014. What it said, in a Quick Tip: caffeinated your Terminal Article, if you wanted to wake a Mac from sleep, use the Terminal command named "Caffeine -u -t 1". I placed it in an Automator Most Used Action called "Run Shell Script -- Caffeine -u -t 1" and it worked! Now, I can put my Mac to Sleep but at 6pm, the Automator App will launch, run the "Caffeine -u- -t 1" command and proceed to work as if I had awakened the Mac From Sleep mode by pressing a keyboard key and had run the Automator Script with a double click.
Sorry for the long, drawn-out reply, but maybe this will help others.

Using 3rd party binary in script that is run as job

Hi all,
I have several scripts to do various tasks with IIS logs we receive from all our various web servers. One script unzips logs, another logparses to grab a few fields then sftp to a 3rd party for analysis, another will encrypt the original zip files
in prep for ftp to 3rd party, another will ftp to that 3rd party, and yet another will analyse the logs with our in house analytiscs application.
I want to have a master script that will run these other scripts as jobs so that it will control when to start certain scripts based on the state of the jobs. It all seemed to work great as I was setting up test jobs, until I added '3rd' party executables
like 7-zip, ftp.exe, winscp, etc... The jobs would just go to failed state when they hit the executables.
That's not my current problem though as I found out that if I used the
-windowstyle hidden option for start-process then everything ran as expected, that is until I wanted to log output from the 3rd party app. FTP for example.
I tried this:
$ftpexe = "C:\windows\System32\ftp.exe"
$ftpscr="d:\scripts\ftpscrtmp.txt"
"open 111.1.1.1`r`nSomeFTPuser`r`nSomepassword <..bunch of other ftp commands>" | Out-File -FilePath $ftpscr -Append -Encoding "ASCII"
start-process -wait -filepath $ftpexe -argumentlist $ftparglist -RedirectStandardOutput $ftplog -windowstyle hidden
However, asking powershell to redirect output of a hidden window was probably like asking someone to cover their eyes and read a book and it let me know it.
I have tried without using -windowstyle hidden and not having any luck. I want to capture the output of the ftp commands so that I can make sure the file was transferred successfully. If I run the script without -windowstyle hidden and not as
a job it works, and I can test the output. I really want to be able to run this script as a job AND get the output of the ftp to a file... advice?
Thanks in advance!

This works with no problem for me.
Start-Process -wait -filepath ftp.exe -argumentlist '-s:c:\scripts\ftpcmd.txt' -RedirectStandardOutput c:\scripts\ftp.log
I get no window and the file gets written.
This is my ftp command file:
open ftp.microsoft.com
anonymous
[email protected]
ls
bye
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