• Adobe After Effects

  Applescript to cancel Watch Folder in AE

  Posted by Mike Procunier on August 15, 2007 at 9:56 pm

  I’m trying find an automated way to cancel Watch Folder mode in After Effects on all of the machines on my Render Farm. When I need to restart the machines or relaunch AE I must use Remote Destop to access each machine then click “Cancel” in each one’s Watch Folder window. When the watch folder window is open AE won’t run “.jsx” scripts & Remote Desktop’s Restart All times out. I’m thinking the only way to do it is a script that simulates clicking the “Cancel” button in the Watch Folder window.

  This is what I came up with but it’s not working:

  activate application “Adobe After Effects CS3”
  tell application “System Events”
  tell process “Adobe After Effects CS3”
  click button “Cancel” of window “Watch Folder”
  end tell
  end tell

  Any ideas?

  Mike Procunier replied 18 years, 8 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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