RE: Strangeness with installing Applescript Guidebooks on 9.2.1
RE: Strangeness with installing Applescript Guidebooks on 9.2.1
- Subject: RE: Strangeness with installing Applescript Guidebooks on 9.2.1
- From: "Bourque, Jason" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 07:36:56 -0400
I found that the creation dates on some of the folders in the guidebooks
where like 1904, I recreated the folder structure completely and the scripts
ran fine.
Hope this helps.
Jason Bourque
Senior Script Developer
Publishing Automation
MFS Investment Management
617-954-5312
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From: Charles Arthur
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Sent: Sunday, October 7, 2001 4:40 PM
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To: email@hidden
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Subject: Strangeness with installing Applescript Guidebooks on 9.2.1
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I gotta new iBook. Using 9.2.1 because X annoys me. (When there's a system
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font option which allows 9pt unaliased Chicago, I'm there, though.)
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Trying to install the Applescript Guidebooks, which have scripts to
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install
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a series of help files, the scripts - written by Sal, no less - bombed on
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the following piece of error-catching code that all of them have:
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--
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set error_log to ((path to desktop) as text) & ((day of (current date)) as
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string) & ,
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((time of (current date)) as string) -- was (path to
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desktop) sted ("Mac HD:Desktop Folder:")
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--
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it's a single line; eliminate any breaks.
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I got the error message "Finder got an error: can't make <<class desk>>
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into an item."
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WTF?
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I had to paste the path to my startup disk desktop folder into each, which
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I didn't particularly mind, but it would have been a big leap for non-AS
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folk. Is there something weird here? I notice that since I have both 9 and
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X on my system, there are *two* Finders both openable by Script Editor (in
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9), so presumably by AScript. Would that make a difference?
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Charles
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