Scheduling Downloads on a Mac

[vexille]

Hi! I run Mac OS X 10.3.9 and was wondering whether there is an easy way of scheduling downloads for off peak times? Other than starting them when I go to bed and stopping them when I get up I don't know of a better solution.

I assume that there are utilities available that will open and close applications at times that you set. For example, could I set BitTorrent to open at 11pm and close at 8am.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[alansallad]

Hi! I run Mac OS X 10.3.9 and was wondering whether there is an easy way of scheduling downloads for off peak times? Other than starting them when I go to bed and stopping them when I get up I don't know of a better solution.

I assume that there are utilities available that will open and close applications at times that you set. For example, could I set BitTorrent to open at 11pm and close at 8am.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Try this:
In iCal just go to set an alarm (under New Event), go to "Open File" and choose the file or script, then set when you wish it to open.

Maybe a search on Google would throw up a script to shut down a programme from within iCal. Or have a look at: http://automatorworld.com/ for possible scripts.

[vexille]

Thank you very much alansallad. For any one else wondering about this see this link as it is very helpful!

http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-195093.html

You need to create an applescript which can then be run by iCal and this tells you how. Just replace Azureus with the Program you want to open/close.