Comments on: Time Machine notification with Growl

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:13:14 +0000

Ok, thank you I will look into that.

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:02:42 +0000

I think the issue is with XSLT Tools.osax framework.

It is not compatible with 64 bit on 10.6.

Contact the developer http://www.latenightsw.com/freeware/XSLTTools/index.html

Last i heard he was going to fix it.

See if you get this in your console log.

11/29/09 8:59:45 AM AppleScript Runner[7840] Error loading /Library/ScriptingAdditions/XSLT Tools.osax/Contents/MacOS/XSLT Tools: dlopen(/Library/ScriptingAdditions/XSLT Tools.osax/Contents/MacOS/XSLT Tools, 262): no suitable image found. Did find: /Library/ScriptingAdditions/XSLT Tools.osax/Contents/MacOS/XSLT Tools: no matching architecture in universal wrapper

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:58:08 +0000

I dont thinks so. It used to work before i upgraded to snow leopard, but now its not.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:22:13 +0000

Hi, I tried putting all of this in place by following all your steps. The Terminal says that it is loaded, but I do not get any notifications. Does this script still work for 10.6?

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:57:24 +0000

Steve, You might be able to could use hardware growler for this http://growl.info/documentation/hardwaregrowler.php

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:09:37 +0000

Would Growl work to notify me to eject my external devices (hard drive) before shutdown? Both my wife and I have had small to significant data corruption by not doing this. I would be so ever grateful and appreciative … Steve

By: amy

amy — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:10:47 +0000

I'm sorry, that dummy script should be:

--set consoletext to do shell script "syslog -F '$Message' -k Sender /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd -k Time ge -5m" set consoletext to "this is a test" if console_text is not "" then tell application "GrowlHelperApp" set the allNotificationsList to ¬ {"Notification"}

    set the enabledNotificationsList to ¬
        {"Notification"}

    register as application ¬
        "Time Machine Notification" all notifications allNotificationsList ¬
        default notifications enabledNotificationsList ¬
        icon of application "Time Machine.app"

    notify with name ¬
        "Notification" title ¬
        "Time Machine Notification" description ¬
        console_text application name "Time Machine Notification"
end tell

end if

By: amy

amy — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:43:33 +0000

I setup the script and plist as directed. When time machine runs a backup all I receive as Growl notifications is that the volume has been mounted and unmounted. I don't receive any logs, etc. I also have an icon of a folder and not the time machine icon. Is the shell script still accurate?

If I remove the shell script and run a dummy text in it's place I get the time machine icon and it registers with growl and works like it's supposed to. Any help would be appreciated.

This is the script that gives me the wrong icon and does not register:

set console_text to do shell script "syslog -F '$Message' -k Sender /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd -k Time ge -5m"

if console_text is not "" then tell application "GrowlHelperApp" set the allNotificationsList to ¬ {"Time Machine Notification"}

    set the enabledNotificationsList to ¬
        {"Time Machine Notification"}

    register as application ¬
        "Time Machine Notification" all notifications allNotificationsList ¬
        default notifications enabledNotificationsList ¬
        icon of application "Time Machine.app"

    notify with name ¬
        "Time Machine" title ¬
        "Time Machine Notification" description ¬
        console_text application name "Time Machine Notification"
end tell

end if

This dummy script does work properly (other than obviously telling me about what the time machine is doing:

set console_text to do shell script "syslog -F '$Message' -k Sender /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd -k Time ge -5m"

if console_text is not "" then tell application "GrowlHelperApp" set the allNotificationsList to ¬ {"Time Machine Notification"}

    set the enabledNotificationsList to ¬
        {"Time Machine Notification"}

    register as application ¬
        "Time Machine Notification" all notifications allNotificationsList ¬
        default notifications enabledNotificationsList ¬
        icon of application "Time Machine.app"

    notify with name ¬
        "Time Machine" title ¬
        "Time Machine Notification" description ¬
        console_text application name "Time Machine Notification"
end tell

end if

By: Joe Chiarelli

Joe Chiarelli — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:15:58 +0000

This is a great use for Prowl.

Now to get it going with Prowl notification plugin would pop this nicely on my iphone

By: Simon PIerre Desrosiers

Simon PIerre Desrosiers — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:01:34 +0000

Ha looks great, but syslog crashes on me on my machine

[ Cassandre:: 20:51] [~] # syslog -F '$Message' -k Sender /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd -k Time ge -1m syslog(89548) malloc: *** error for object 0x107cc0: double free *** set a breakpoint in mallocerrorbreak to debug Segmentation fault [ Cassandre:: 20:51] [~]

And any variation on the syslog commands also segfault.

Any one has a clue ^