After a bit of frustrating effort I finally got a simple AppleScript to work with help here. Now that Sequoia has been updated this script fails again. Different reason but it's failing. This is the script.

set source to "/Volumes/Media Main/"
set destFolder to "/Volumes/Media Backup"
set userPath to "/Volumes/Macintosh SSD 1TB/Users/bill/"

do shell script "/Volumes/Macintosh\\ HD/usr/bin/rsync -av --delete --exclude=.* -i -log-file=" & quoted form of (userPath & "Desktop/AppleScriptLog/MediaBackup.txt") & space & (quoted form of source) & space & (quoted form of destFolder)

tell application "TextEdit" to open POSIX file (userPath & "Documents/Done.txt")

This is the failure

Result:
error "rsync(9167): error: 2024/12/12 15:15:15 [32315] .d..t.... Media Main/: stat: No such file or directory
rsync(9167): warning: child 9168 exited with status 23" number 23

I have tested the set source to lines separately and they work. It seems to be the rsync line that doesn't seem to like the quoted form of now. The error looks like it dent like the path to source. I did notice that rsync is a larger file size than the 15.3 version and the man pages are a different size. May be nothing - versions are the same however. I am pooched! Not sure what else I can try here. Any assistance will be be appreciated. THX. As you can tell, programming is not my second language!

After a bit of frustrating effort I finally got a simple AppleScript to work with help here. Now that Sequoia has been updated this script fails again. Different reason but it's failing. This is the script.

set source to "/Volumes/Media Main/"
set destFolder to "/Volumes/Media Backup"
set userPath to "/Volumes/Macintosh SSD 1TB/Users/bill/"

do shell script "/Volumes/Macintosh\\ HD/usr/bin/rsync -av --delete --exclude=.* -i -log-file=" & quoted form of (userPath & "Desktop/AppleScriptLog/MediaBackup.txt") & space & (quoted form of source) & space & (quoted form of destFolder)

tell application "TextEdit" to open POSIX file (userPath & "Documents/Done.txt")

This is the failure

Result:
error "rsync(9167): error: 2024/12/12 15:15:15 [32315] .d..t.... Media Main/: stat: No such file or directory
rsync(9167): warning: child 9168 exited with status 23" number 23

I have tested the set source to lines separately and they work. It seems to be the rsync line that doesn't seem to like the quoted form of now. The error looks like it dent like the path to source. I did notice that rsync is a larger file size than the 15.3 version and the man pages are a different size. May be nothing - versions are the same however. I am pooched! Not sure what else I can try here. Any assistance will be be appreciated. THX. As you can tell, programming is not my second language!

• applescript
• rsync
• macos-sequoia

• Does the rsync command work if you run it from a terminal instead of from AppleScript? – Barmar Commented 2 days ago
• -log-file should be --log-file. Is that typo in the real script or a copying error? – Barmar Commented 2 days ago
• The script failed after the 15.4 update at the log entry, it seemed to like when a - was removed. I did see in Mac rsync that the -I --log-file was not supported anymore. Version should have changed but it has not. – Bill Commented 2 days ago
• Hi all, I came to the conclusion the log file creation in this newer version of rsync in Sequoia 15.4 won't work. I downloaded the latest from home-brew and the script is working agin. Thanks so much for everyone's help. – Bill Commented yesterday
• Here is the working script. set source to "/Volumes/Media Main/" set destFolder to "/Volumes/Media Backup" set userPath to "/Volumes/Macintosh SSD 1TB/Users/bill/" do shell script "/Volumes/Macintosh\\ HD/opt/homebrew/bin/rsync -av --delete --exclude=.* --log-file=" & quoted form of (userPath & "desktop/AppleScriptLog/MediaBackup.txt") & space & (quoted form of source) & space & (quoted form of destFolder) tell application "TextEdit" to open "/Volumes/Macintosh SSD 1TB/Users/bill/Documents/done.txt" – Bill Commented yesterday

1 Answer 1

This thread in the Apple Developer Forum indicates that the --log-file option has been removed in MacOS 15.4.

Instead, just redirect stderr to capture errors:

do shell script "/Volumes/Macintosh\\ HD/usr/bin/rsync -av --delete --exclude=.* -i" & space & (quoted form of source) & space & (quoted form of destFolder) & " 2> " & quoted form of (userPath & "Desktop/AppleScriptLog/MediaBackup.txt")