Launching an app n minutes after boot up
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Is there is way to make an app launch n minutes after boot up? There are a few apps that I want to launch and but not at start time (using login items) because it slows down boot time (e.g. Dropbox). Ideally I can make it like 10 minutes after launch. Thanks!
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Not directly, but you can do much the same thing by starting a script that will wait ten minutes, then launch the application. For example, with an AppleScript:
Open AppleScript Editor in This will start the application(s) ten minutes after you log in rather than after when you start up, but your question suggests that you're automatically logging in on start up anyway. Starting Mac GUI applications genuinely on startup tends to not work. [edit]Per Daniel Beck's suggestion, here's a way to do this silently: Create the AppleScript described above, but save it as a script. Then create a Launchd property list. If you've installed the Mac OS X dev tools, you can use the Property List Editor that's included with them, or you can use a text editor (as it's XML). Create the following:
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