I dont know how you have set this to work on your machine but I have set my gallery installs on mac os x 10.4 systems to autostart by doing the following:
setting the "open at login" option for PD from the dock
setting the start up path in "start up flags" box within
preferences>startup menu
I havent encountered the problem that you have but I dont shutdown my machines at night. Is there some reason you need to?
Here are two simple ways I have used that might work instead ( I dont know what you are running with PD ( gem, etc...) but they could be modified to suit:
- use a 24 hour clock patch ( really just a resetting counter and is
attached) that turns the DSP ( or whatever is appropriate ) on/off or closes and opens the other patch at certain times instead of restarting entire computer
- use an arduino and a light sensor to turn off the DSP when the
lights are shut off at night
On 9/23/07, Stuart Jones s.jones@csm.arts.ac.uk wrote:
Hi All
I have a patch running an installation on a Mac laptop running 10.4.9. The laptop is scheduled to shut down at night and start up in the morning. The PD patch is on the desktop with a folder containing samples it is controlling, and there's nothing else on the desktop except the hard drive. From time to time when it starts the computer goes to the finder after opening the patch; this seems to be completely random and happens about one start up in 5. Does anybody have an explanation? And a way of getting round this problem? It needs to be fail safe as I'm not around during the run of the installation.
Thanks
Stuart
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