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That's a lot of good info. I haven't really used AppleScript since 10.5. I made a few adjustments to the script and am testing it again (unfortunately my test file is 300GB, so it takes a bit to fail).

And it works, finally.

Code:



        tell application "Finder"

                activate

                delay 5

                set isMounted to exists disk "Archive"

        end tell

        if not isMounted then mount volume whichServer

Ended up doing the trick for that AppleEvent error. I also added timeouts to the finder duplicate, and the shell script (which probably doesn't do anything, but it isn't hurting). Tested with a 200GB and a 350GB folder, one with a local copy and one with a remote copy.

Thanks everyone.

Now I get to learn how to do essentially the same thing on a Windows machine, as well as find a good way to make .tgz files on windows.

Ack! Just did a 1MB test file for a "how to" video for my co-workers, and it threw an error again. Back to the drawing board.