Re: Invisible scripts in Script menu
Re: Invisible scripts in Script menu
- Subject: Re: Invisible scripts in Script menu
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 09:37:38 -0700
On 10/13/01 4:07 AM, "Bill Cheeseman" <email@hidden> wrote:
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on 10/13/01 4:17 AM, Paul Berkowitz at email@hidden wrote:
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> I was happily using the new Script menu in OS 10.1 with a few scripts I had
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> added. Then I clean-reinstalled OS 10.1 for unrelated reasons. I have now
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> re-installed the Script menu, but scripts I put in ~/Library/Scripts/ cannot
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> be seen in the Scripts menu, nor in Script Runner. They have the extension
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> ".scpt". The built-in scripts and folders in /Library/Scripts/ are visible
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> in both Menu and Runner.
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> I have uninstalled and re-installed a new Script menu, closed and re-opened
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> Script Runner, logged out and in, all to no avail. Any other tricks I should
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> try?
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The only idea that occurs to me is to check the permissions on the old
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scripts. I have found that it is easy to accidentally install things on Mac
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OS X in such a way as to make them inaccessible to myself because I don't
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have sufficient permissions. (The easiest way to do this seems to be to drag
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a folder full of things from a Mac OS 9 installation onto my Mac OS X
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installation, instead of dragging the contents of the folder into a folder
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that I personally created in my Mac OS X installation. When beta testing Mac
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OS X 10.1, I once dragged the entire saved Documents folder into a
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clean-installed Mac OS X installation, replacing the original Documents
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folder, and I lost the ability to access ALL of my documents.)
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Thanks, Bill. That is very useful to know. In this particular case, I lost
the script when I clean-re-installed 10.1 (I forgot to make a coy of my
~/Library/Scripts/ folder to another partition before wiping the old one),
but there were only two scripts in it anyway. I have rewritten them (this
one is just a one-liner - not too difficult).
So this is a brand new script, just made in Script Editor, and saved to my
Scripts folder. I have tried again with a new Script menu and another new
version of the script. It's again invisible to Script Menu - it's not in the
menu or Script Runner, even though it is in the Scripts folder (made by the
menu) and does have the ".scpt" extension.
??
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Paul Berkowitz