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However, under Sierra, this seems to always return a true. I think because the ability of Apps to trigger the command 'tell application “System Events’ to click “n” using command down’ seems to always be allowed. Could be wrong, but in my App, Bills routine never triggers.

tell application "System Events" to set GUIScriptingEnabled to UI elements enabled -- read-only in OS X 10.9 Mavericks and newer

I’m using

repeat

tell application "TextEdit"

activate

try

close every window saving no

end try

do shell script ("sleep 1")

tell application "System Events" to tell process "TextEdit"

try

do shell script ("sleep 0.2")

click menu item "Preferences…" of menu 1 of menu bar item "TextEdit" of menu bar 1

set my assistTrial to true

exit repeat

on error errmsg number errnum

set my assistTrial to false

exit repeat

end try

end tell

end repeat

Which seems to return consistent results, but is not as elegant as Bills routine.

Anyone got anything simpler, please?

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