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Scheduled Launching/Quitting Applications

Paul Westbrook | 09 March, 2007 20:08

On our Mac mini, I wanted to schedule an application to launch in the morning, and quit at night.  I was able to pretty easily configure launchd and AppleScript to do this.

For example, if I wanted to launch TextEdit, I would create these AppleScripts, and saved them as applications.

tell application "TextEdit"
    activate
end tell

tell application "TextEdit"
    quit
end tell

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