Is It Possible To Update Folders/Files on El Captain and Snow Leopard Simultaneously

any apple script out there?

It is possible to create "Folder Actions" via Automator. The action could be to copy the file that appears in the monitored folder to another location.

HOWEVER, as you have described your setup, you have lots of folders, each of which have sub-folders. You could have to create and attach a Folder Action to each and every one. And when you create a new folder you have to do the Folder Action setup for that folder.

Google "Automator Folder Actions"

pcbjr wrote:

So - please walk me through setting up the alias-

I select my "Clients" folder, or my "Shared"folder (preferably since all my data is there, including personal stuff) - create an alias (which I know how to do) - then what (???) - from then on, step-to-step, not at all sure what to do -- where does the new alias folder go...how do I access it from one OS or the other.... etc.????

Lets say you have all of these folders in a master folder in your Home folder called "All My Work" where ever that folder is

Create an Alias for "All My Work"

Copy the Alias to your Home folder under El Capitan.

Now when booted into El Capitan, you go to your El Capitan Home folder, and double click on the "All My Work" Alias and you are in the real "All My Work" folder back in your Snow Leopard Home folder.

If you use an external disk, or 3rd partition, or network attached storage, you create the Alias for the starting folder, then copy one to your Snow Leopard Home folder, and copy the Alias to your El Capitan Home folder.

The Alias is a pointer. It is not the folder, but a pointer to the folder. An advantage of an Alias to a network attached storage is that it will encapsulate the network mounting information.

If you run into any unexpected behavior with an Alias, you can use a Unix Symbolic Link. The Symlink does not include network attached storage mount encapsulation, but it does work at the lowest level of the file system.

Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal

ln -s "/Volumes/SnowLeopardVolumeNameWhichIDoNotKnowWhatItIsCalledOnYourSystem/Users/ MyUserName/All My Work" "/Volumes/ElCapitonVolume/Users/MyUserName/All My Work"

pcbjr wrote:

Here's an example from 1 client folder:

Inside of each folder are other sub-folders.

So' I'd have to do a folder action to each one times 100 plus? If so, that won't work.

Yup. But you asked about Applescript, and this is all I could think of. It is always possible someone else has another approach.

pcbjr wrote:

I'm going to try this - will need another evening - or likely a day this weekend - please keep this tabbed on your end in case I have more questions

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NOTE: This evening, I've been responsive, but that is not always the case, so if I'm slow in responding, it just means I'm doing something else, like earning a living, working my "Honey Do List", etc... 🙂

pcbjr wrote:

I'll have to talk to my isp - my email is POP apparently - but it's worked good for 20 years ....

Changing to IMAP

The Alias idea is so you do not need to move anything. Just put an Alias in El Capitan pointing back to the Snow Leopard originals.

Oh yea. Backup, Backup Backup.