Applescript to autosave InDesign document to specific location every x seconds?

[hannahj13948623]

Hi,

I'm a complete newbie to Applescript but have spent a while searching the internet trying to cobble together a script that, when saved as an application and opened on launching inDesign, will automatically save the document I'm working on to a specific folder every few minutes. This is what I have so far, but I'm not sure it's having the desired effect (just running the script from the editor isn't producing any saves of the file I have open):

repeat

delay 60

  tell application "Adobe InDesign CS6" to save front document to "path_goes_here"

end repeat

Can anyone help me troubleshoot this?

Thanks

[Ronald63 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Try this ..

on run {}
    set mPath to "path_goes_here"
    repeat
        delay 60
        tell application "Adobe InDesign CS6"
            try
                set doc to active document
                set docName to name of doc
                save a copy doc to mPath & docName
            end try
        end tell
    end repeat
end run

Regards

Ronald

[hannahj13948623]

Hi Ronald, thanks for your help!  This worked great. Can I ask another quick question? I tried using the same script but for InCopy to save a version of what I was working on (and remembered to change the application name), but it only seems to save an InDesign file. Is there a way I can make this work for InCopy documents too?

[Ronald63]

Hi,

Sorry I don't know InCopy ...

Regards

[hannahj13948623]

Don't worry! Thanks for you help anyway!

[Ronald63]

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