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Re: Applescript complaining about accessing and writing to a file
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Re: Applescript complaining about accessing and writing to a file


  • Subject: Re: Applescript complaining about accessing and writing to a file
  • From: John Day <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 08:32:56 -0400

Here is another approach:

set maxBatch to 1000
set thePathA to "/tmp/jaikoz_itunes_model_noFormat.txt"
set thePathB to "/tmp/jaikoz_itunes_model.txt"

tell application "iTunes"
    set mainLibrary to library playlist 1

    script s
        property theTracks : get every track of mainLibrary
    end script

    set trackBatch to {}
    set batchCount to 0

    repeat with nexttrack in s's theTracks
        if (class of nexttrack is file track) then
            try
                set trackname to name of nexttrack
                set loc to location of nexttrack
                set locpath to POSIX path of loc
                set persistid to persistent ID of nexttrack
                set end of trackBatch to trackname & "::" & locpath & "::" & persistid & linefeed
                set batchCount to batchCount + 1
                if batchCount mod maxBatch = 0 then
                    set trackBatch to trackBatch as text
                    do shell script "echo " & quoted form of trackBatch & " >> " & quoted form of thePathA
                    set trackBatch to {}
                end if
            end try
        end if
    end repeat
end tell

if trackBatch ≠ {} then
    set trackBatch to trackBatch as text
    do shell script "echo " & quoted form of trackBatch & " >> " & quoted form of thePathA
    set trackBatch to {}
end if

do shell script "sed '/^$/ d' " & quoted form of thePathA & " > " & quoted form of thePathB & " ; rm " & quoted form of thePathA




On Oct 25, 2013, at 5:57 AM, Paul Taylor wrote:

> I get the error message
>
> 25/10/2013 10:39:39.816 iTunes[3366]: AppleEvents/sandbox: Returning errAEPrivilegeError/-10004 and denying dispatch of event rdwr/writ from process 'AppleScript Editor'/0x0-0x24d24d, pid=12717, because it is not entitled to send an AppleEvent to this process.
>
> The errors message occurs every time we access the file
> /tmp/jaikoz_itunes_model.txt, so for the following lines
>
>
> set fileref to open for access (thePath) with write permission (one message)
> set eof fileref to 0
> (one message)
> write nextline & "\n" as "utf8" to fileref  starting at eof
>  (once per song in itunes)
>
> close access fileref (one message)
>
>
> so the problem is not that we cant talk to itunes but that iTunes
>  isn't allow to do things with the filesystem
> It still writes to the file regardless but I think these error messages are slowing it down
>
>
> Am I writing to the file in the wrong place or something ?
>
> tell application "iTunes"
>     set thePath to (POSIX file "/tmp/jaikoz_itunes_model.txt")
>     set fileref to open for access (thePath) with write permission
>     set eof fileref to 0
>     set mainLibrary to library playlist 1
>     repeat with nexttrack in (get every track of mainLibrary)
>         if (class of nexttrack is file track) then
>             try
>                 set trackname to name of nexttrack
>                 set loc to location of nexttrack
>                 set locpath to POSIX path of loc
>                 set persistid to persistent ID of nexttrack
>                 set nextline to trackname & "::" & locpath & "::" & persistid
>                 write nextline & "\n" as "utf8" to fileref  starting at eof
>             end try
>         end if
>     end repeat
>     close access fileref
> end tell
> return ""
>
>
>
>
> Paul
>
>
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