Re: Loss of formatting preferences
Re: Loss of formatting preferences
- Subject: Re: Loss of formatting preferences
- From: Iurista GmbH <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 17:01:44 +0100
Well, that may be ONE source of troubles only.
The problem exists (at least) since 10.6.8: Here, the formatting preferences disappear EACH time, a script does not run or terminate because of an error, which may be malformatted or missing prefs, properties or apps to be adressed, typing errors asf.
As an example (among a lot others): I have scripts that should get a value from a plist file. If I mistype the corresponding key, bingo, the preferences are set to the default ones.
And unfortunately, I'm not the best of the scripters worldwide :-(
Rudolf
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System: 10.6.8
Hardware: Mini mid 2011, MBP mid 2011
Am 24.10.2015 um 01.51 schrieb Shane Stanley:
> For many years, people have been reporting here and elsewhere that their formatting preferences sometimes get mysteriously reset to defaults. Last time the discussion came up here, Nigel Garvey mentioned a connection with the "choose application" dialog. (The same dialog appears when you try to compile a script and a target application can't be found.)
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> Anyway, I had a look recently at the com.applescript.plist preference file where the formatting is stored, and I noticed the only other entry was for ChooseApplicationBounds, which seemed a bit of a coincidence. So with the .plist file open, I ran the script "choose application", closed the resulting dialog -- and the .plist file's entry for AppleScriptSourceAttributes disappeared before my eyes.
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> So I think we have definitive proof of the culprit at last...
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> Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
> <www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>
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