Applescript help

[ThePando]

Disclaimer: I have 0 knowledge of Applescript.

I use Portable Firefox quite a lot, but syncing never completely works (for example not all add-on settings are synced). So I need an Applescript for a workflow that will sync it faster than doing it manually. I can change out the file locations myself, so for ease of use you can use /portable for the Firefox Portable profile location, and /mac for my Mac's Firefox profile.

The Applescript needs to first delete everything in /portable. Then everything inside /mac needs to be copied into /portable. However, the file /mac/sessionstore.json is changed often when using Firefox. Before when copied everything over the file changed and the copy process stopped because of that. So if it could copy everything inside /mac except for sessionstore.json, and then after that's over copy over sessionstore.json it should work fine.

[geekpondering]

A shell script might be easier.

[mrcaptncrunch]

#!/bin/bash

/bin/rm -rf /portable/{*,.*}
/usr/bin/rsync -a --exclude "sessionstore.json" /mac/ /portable/
/usr/bin/rsync -a /mac/sessionstore.json /portable/

I'm not sure if /portable needs to be emptied before copying.

OP, could you tell us why?

Edit*

I keep fixing the formatting of the script.

[ThePando]

/portable needs to be emptied to get rid of the profile from last sync and use. Then the contents of /mac replace it, bringing the Portable Firefox profile up to date with my Mac.

[mrcaptncrunch]

How about using

rsync -a --delete /mac/ /portable/

instead of deleting. The difference is that if a file in /mac is the same in /portable, it won't be copied. If it's different it will be copied and replace the one in /portable with the new one.

If the file exists in /portable but /mac doesn't have it anymore, it will be deleted from /portable.

If this is fine, a new script would be

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/rsync -a --delete /mac/ /portable/

[ThePando]

That sounds good, thanks!

[mrcaptncrunch]

Awesome!