Use SleepWatcher (www.bernhard-baehr.de) with the following trigger: /usr/local/sbin/sleepwatcher -V -W /Users//Documents/Personal/rwake.sh =-=-=-=-= rwake.sh: #!/bin/sh touch ~/Dropbox/WakeEvents/wake.`date +"%Y-%m-%d-%HH-%MM"` =-=-=-=-= and set this recipe to email you with the subject line = the name of the file whenever a file is created your WakeEvents subfolder in Dropbox. Original recipe 6366.
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This Trigger fires every time any file is saved in the folder you specify. NOTE: will process up to 15 files per polling period.
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