Re: Lion crashed by AppleScript
Re: Lion crashed by AppleScript
- Subject: Re: Lion crashed by AppleScript
- From: Deivy Petrescu <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:36:32 -0400
Luther,
I can't see all your script, but to run this script you would have to
1. quit the finder
2. change the plist while finder is not running
3. activate the finder.
I have one such script here and I've run it in all OS's with this plist property and not problems.
This includes Lion
On Jul 21, 2011, at 13:27 , Luther Fuller wrote:
> First thing this morning, I reinstalled Lion and ran my window arranging script. Lion's Show/Hide Sidebar and Toolbar items in the View menu now seem to be global, so I removed an unnecessary line of code from the script. It works near satisfactory and caused no problems with the system behavior.
>
> Then I tried my Abracapocus script which does this ...
>
> set value of property list item "AppleShowAllFiles" of property list file filePath to (true)
>
> Instant failure! I have now installed Lion for the third time.
>
> But, is this problem specific to this particular command or plist file
> or
> is it a more general problem with writing any preference plist file?
>
> Some of my AppleScripted applications create/read/write a plist file in the preferences folder. I hope this problem is not an indication that I can no longer do that.
>
> One of my applications automatically inserts a menu item folder in the Dock by writing to 'com.apple.dock.plist'. I hope this still works.
>
> If anyone encounters any problems or successes with writing preference plist files. please let us know.
>
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