Comments on: Render, Email, Incremental Save and Shutdown

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:50:04 +0000

I have a problem with the email lscript on my mac, i always get ‘Mail not sent’ ‘null is not an object’ error, whether i use this script or the email render script that comes with afx.

Any help much appreciated

By: lloyd

lloyd — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:44:25 +0000

Just added the option to sleep on mac. Re-download the script to get the new version.

By: benson

benson — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:58:35 +0000

do you guys know how to change the script to: “Render, (Email,) Incremental Save and SLEEP” on a mac (osx 10.5)??
SLEEP instead of SHUTDOWN. that would be awesome.
thanks for the great scripts, benson

By: lloyd

lloyd — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:12:57 +0000

Someone pointed out that you can easily have the script send you an SMS text message. You can sign up over at https://www1.teleflip.com/ and have the email converted to an SMS so you can be notified on your mobile phone in case you don’t have access to email

By: lloyd

lloyd — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:13:32 +0000

Thanks for that Frank, but in my testing so far that doesn’t work reliably on every machine even though they are all running the same WinXP SP2. I just updated the script to allow easy configuration of the shutdown command in case you want to download the freeware utility that is mentioned on this webpage: http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/shutcut.php
But in the mean time I’ve set the default to be what you suggest.

By: Frank Eriksson

Frank Eriksson — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:36:47 +0000

there is an easy way to shutdown computers via the cmd in windows:
shutdown -s -t 30 -c “Render is complete, shutting down… use shutdown -a to cancel”

that cmd will now wait for 30 sec and if you wan to cancel just type:
shutdown -a

(press windowskey+r and write that)