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Thank you Chris and Ron-

Setting the path to “Applications” worked. It is so strange that my CS4 scripts worked and this problem didn’t arise until CS5.

So grateful for the help!

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From: applescript-users-bounces+ksnielsen=email@hidden [mailto:applescript-users-bounces+ksnielsen=email@hidden] On Behalf Of Christopher Stone
Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 12:15 AM
To: email@hidden
Subject: Re: InDesign Script that references a script library

On Jun 16, 2011, at 14:54, Nielsen, Karen S. (Schmidt) wrote:

I can successfully run the script on my Mac but when tried on other Macs with the same setup, the library reference fails. Any ideas?

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Hey Karen,

Just guessing but I'd say you've hard-coded your path strings, and this is bound to fail at some point when you play musical machines.

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set p to "Applications:test.txt"

set f to file p

--> Error: Can’t get file "Applications:test.txt"

set p to "Thor:Applications:test.txt" --> actual hfs path

set f to file p

--> Error: Can’t get file "Thor:Applications:test.txt".

set f to alias p

read f

# Works fine.

set testFilePath to ((path to applications folder) as text) & "test.txt"

read alias testFilePath

# This will handle a move to any Mac as long as 'test.txt' is in the Applications Folder.

# For my own use I prefer to write this as an implicit coercion:

set testFilePath to "" & (path to applications folder) & "test.txt"

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I generally find it better practice to use 'alias' rather than 'file'.

You're only using a partial path here.

set oracle_script_path to "Applications:ORACLE:OracleScriptLibraries:FinderLib_Oracle.scpt"

So I'm wondering how that's getting resolved and working for you at all. Possibly a relative path?

Hmm. Interesting. I can get this to run using both Script Debugger and Smile but not the Applescript Editor:

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try

set libPath to "Applications:lib1.scpt"

set libPathFile to load script file libPath

tell libPathFile to bp(2)

on error errMsg number errNum

set sep to "=============================="

set e to sep & return & "Error: " & errMsg & return & sep & return ¬

& "Error Number: " & errNum & return & sep

beep

end try

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Best Regards,

Chris