Script won't run automatically

I use Image Capture to download photos from my camera. I have set it to run an Applescript after download to rename all the downloaded files. The Applescript icon appears briefly in the dock but nothing happens. I have inserted a display dialog at the beginning of the script but it doesn't display. I have wrapped the script in Try/on error, with a display on error, but nothing appears. The script runs perfectly when run manually.
Any suggestions?
AK

The script is begins with "on run" and ends with "end run". It is saved as an application.
When Image Browser starts with a camera connected (in fact it auto-starts because the camera is connected) in the top pane of its dialog box there are two pop-ups, one to select the target directory and the other to select post-processing. The latter has options such as preview, crop, fit ... and "Other". Selecting Other allows you to browse to an application, in my case the saved script. Underneath this pop-up is written "occurs after downloading".
The pictures transfer, the AS icon appears in the dock and bounces a couple of times then goes away again without having done anything. I have just tried it with a couple of pictures, and get the impression that its appearance in the dock was shorter than last time I ran it, when there were 120 pictures in the download folder. This suggests (if true) that it is iterating through the files in the directory.
In case anyone can spot something stupid I'll paste the script below - but it works stand-alone.
AK
click here to open this script in your editor<pre style="font-family: 'Monaco', 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; overflow:auto; color: #222; background: #DDD; padding: 0.2em; font-size: 10px; width:400px">on run
try
set ThePath to "AKMacHD80p_1:Pictures:*IST:Incoming"
set TheFiles to list folder ThePath without invisibles
repeat with ThisFile in TheFiles
set CharList to characters of ThisFile
if item 4 of CharList is "P" then
set item 4 of CharList to "R"
renameFile ThePath & ":" & ThisFile to CharList as string
end if
end repeat
on error BadThing
display dialog BadThing as text
end try
end run</pre>

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> I'm having an issue with an application that uses a VBscript to install
> and hope someone can help me.
>
> It will work fine regardless where I put if you double click it, it will
> also work fine from a batch file if you double click the batch. It will
> not run correctly from either the Application Launcher or the command
> line. I have tried putting it in as a post launch script using the
> wscript engine, from the run line, I have also tried to use the
> cscript.exe all to no avail.
> When it is run any way other than double clicking directly on the
vbscript
> or batch file you can see wscript.exe launch in the task manager but the
> CPU stay hung at 50%. No errors it just hangs.
> I put all the install files in the expected
> directory "c:\windows\Temp\3rdParty" along with the script and batch
> files. Below is the vb script, is there something in it causing this?
> I also included the command line that I tried using, this is the same
line
> from the batch file. Also I have run other VBscripts from the command
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> ______________________________________
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>
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> Set colServiceList = objWMIService.ExecQuery ("Select * from
Win32_Service
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>
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> Next
> _________________________________________________
>
Never mind found the problem. For some reason it was not searching the
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Bash script won't run "sudo reboot" under cron, but perfect manually

Hi Archers,
I've got a weird problem with a bash script I use to run pacman and mythtv updates once a week via cron which also reboots itself so that new mythtv and kernels packages become active. This script works likes a charm when I run it manually as user from the command line. But when cron runs it (also as user) it executes everything EXCEPT the last "sudo reboot" command at the end. Sudoers seems to be setup right as it works fine from the command line. I could run this particular script with cron as root but I'd prefer not to update under root with the --asroot command.
Any ideas? It seems like the permissions running manually and with cron are different somehow.
Many thanks!
Last edited by wdirksen (2012-10-09 13:07:28)

OK, I'm going to reconsider this based on all your advices, but I'm still curious about why the command doesn't execute with cron. Related to this, I also find it strange that some root commands work fine with sudo, while others only work within a true root environment
DSpider wrote:Post your /etc/sudoers file.
So here's my sudoers file:
## User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
mythtv ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
. . . and this is the script:
#!/bin/bash
sudo pacman -Syyu --noconfirm
/usr/share/mythtv/optimize_mythdb.pl
/usr/share/mythtv/mythconverg_backup.pl --rotate 20
mythtvname="mythtv-git-$(date +%Y%m%d)-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz"
cd /home/mythtv/AUR/mythtv-git
makepkg
sudo pacman -U $mythtvname --noconfirm
sudo reboot
Anything stick out here?
Last edited by wdirksen (2012-10-09 19:32:52)

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If I shut down my Mac everynight(I live in a time zone 6 hours ahead of Eastern US time), will the scripts run automatically when I start it up the next morning...or...do I need a special utility application for this ?

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2. delete junk from /tmp directory that's more than 3 days old.
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