Re: Old AppleScript applications stopped working
Re: Old AppleScript applications stopped working
- Subject: Re: Old AppleScript applications stopped working
- From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:53:14 -0700
On 2007-08-25, at 08:53:42, Doug McNutt wrote:
The OS is 10.3.9 on a sawtooth G4 because I'm still not ready to
give up my SE/30 file server. Yes I still use a Western Electric
model 500 telephone. Script Editor says it's version 2.0, 11 July
2007 05:02.
I'm only answering this post because I loved my SE/30 so much I've
preserved it in a custom made reinforced wooden box so future
generations gaze with wonder at a machine with more computing power
than that which put the first man on the moon.
[…]
Is it possible that an Apple security update did something?
Entirely possible. I had some problems about the time of 10.4.8 or
10.4.9 WRT to the temp folder. I used to have unfettered access to
files written to: path to /tmp but now it seems like they have to go
in: path to "utmp" and further more some calls that were to /tmp now
have to be /private/tmp. You'd have to the check security update
details from this year to see which did it. Some of them were for
both 10.3 and 10.4 systems.
Is it possible that something timed out after 4 years? Did the
underlying AppleScript rules change? Are AppleScript apps really
APPL's or are they really run by Script Editor which seems to be
fairly new?
AppleScript applets and droplets get most of their abilities by
loading code from the System at startup. They are not true
applications either in the Classic Mac OS or OS X sense.
Philip Aker
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