Paths from my Mac, hidden, compiled into my script?
Paths from my Mac, hidden, compiled into my script?
- Subject: Paths from my Mac, hidden, compiled into my script?
- From: Jerry Krinock <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 11:51:13 -0800
I codesigned (“code”-“signed”) an AppleScript application (.app), zipped and uploaded it to my server. The user downloaded it and reported to me that, at the point where it was supposed to create a directory on his desktop, it threw an error indicating that the directory “/Users/jk/Desktop/…” did not exist. I am “jk”, and that is *my* Desktop.
So, of course, I searched the script to see if I had left a hard-coded path in there. No, I had not.
Then I downloaded the script onto another Mac and, voila, reproduced the problem. So I opened up the script in AppleScript Editor on that other Mac, added some log statements, ran, but the problem did not recur. Furthermore it continued to work even after I removed the log statements and double-clicked the AppleScript .app in Finder.
Breaking open the package and comparing it with a freshly-unzipped version of the download, I found that, in the edited app, the main.scpt file is about 20% smaller, and breaking the freshly-unzipped one open with a text editor, I find that the “/Users/jk/Desktop/…”, and other paths on my Mac, although they do not appear when viewing in AppleScript Editor, appear in there among the gibberish I see with the text editor. Further tests indicate that this seems unrelated to codesigning (the code signature).
This looks like a long slog. Can anyone give me a head start? What would cause this local information to be compiled into my script? This is Mavericks.
Thanks
Jerry Krinock
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