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Hi Brett, I realized last night \--the first time I tried to run this automatically \-- that if the MacBook is closed, this won\'t run. Duh, right? I don\'t suppose there\'s a conditional run that could run at the appointed time or the next time it wakes up? Also, something running on a server would be no good, as this assumes local-machine updates and has no authentication. I\'m not saying all of this as a passive way of asking for these features :-) Just double-checking my new assumptions that this may not work well for me unless I keep my MBA awake and connected. (Of course, if what the devs said on your most recent podcast about IFTTT turns out to happen, that would make a lot of this work even better.) ## Brett — [Aug 08, 2012 07:51 pm](https://my.remarkbox.com/55ed5dd7-4208-11e9-9d31-040140774501/social-logging-by-any-other-name-would-have-a-better-name-brettterpstra-com#55ed5e1f-4208-11e9-9d31-040140774501) There is a way to get scheduled tasks that were missed to run at the next possible time, I have to look it up and will add it to the instructions. Running on a server is feasible, but you\'d have to work out the details of transmitting to your local drive, either via Dropbox or a scheduled (S)FTP task that pulled down new files and stored them using a script locally. Lots of extra setup, but I might consider trying to build a system that allowed that more easily. --- **Source:** [https://my.remarkbox.com/55ed5e1b-4208-11e9-9d31-040140774501](https://my.remarkbox.com/55ed5e1b-4208-11e9-9d31-040140774501) **Snapshot:** 2026-05-07T02:56:48Z **Generator:** Remarkbox `763cacb`