I have an Applescript that manipulates albums in iPhoto, and requires
information about album types. Conveniently, the "album" Applescript
keyword for iPhoto has a "type" property, which determines whether
the album is a "regular album, smart album, book album, slideshow
album, etc." For the most part, end users are able to run my
Applescript with no problem. However, a small group of users are
getting errors. To investigate these errors, I have had a few
affected users run the following test scripts in Script Editor:
try
tell application "iPhoto"
set albumList to id of every album
repeat with albumId in albumList
set albumType to type of album id albumId
end repeat
end tell
on error errorText number errorNumber
tell application "iPhoto" to set myVersion to version
set myString to "AlbumTest1: iPhoto v" & myVersion & " " & errorText
& " " & errorNumber
end try
try
tell application "iPhoto"
repeat with n from 1 to number of albums
set albumType to type of album n
end repeat
end tell
on error errorText number errorNumber
tell application "iPhoto" to set myVersion to version
set myString to "AlbumTest2: iPhoto v" & myVersion & " " & errorText
& " " & errorNumber & " (n is: " & n & ")"
end try
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Both these scripts execute fine for me, and I end up with the text
"trash album" in the Result pane, as this is the type of the last
album queried by the repeat loop. However, the affected users
typically report the following results:
AlbumTest1.scpt:
"AlbumTest1: iPhoto v6.0.5 iPhoto got an error: Can't make id of
every album into type reference. -1700"
AlbumTest2.scpt:
"AlbumTest2: iPhoto v6.0.5 iPhoto got an error: Can't make type of
album 1 into type reference. -1700 (n is: 1)"
Initially, I suspected that perhaps some users were running an older
Mac system with an old version of Applescript, but the last person to
report these errors is running OS X 10.4.8 on an Intel MacBook.
Does anyone have any insights into the cause of these errors, and why
they appear on some systems and not on others?
