| Shane, THANK YOU for your help.
I took a while for me to work out how to use your code, but your thoughts made me error trap the actual code that was writing to the .plist.
If I’ve got your code working correctly, it did not trap any errors, but mine did.
1. On first pass, being empty, my trap generated a ‘can’t get item 1 of {}’ error
2. On the second Pass, it actually correctly displayed the two array values, ‘true’, ‘ email@hidden’
3. On third pass, it errored, and the error message showed ‘true’, but then could not convert the email address to Unicode text.
4. Without any enclosing curled brackets, it errors on second pass
This code (or at leasrt the original code, worked flawlessly for 6 years, then started crashing, unedited, in the latest Sierra build, and also in High Sierra Beta (lodged feedback report).
Why are Apple stuffing up working code??????
More important, how on earth do I fix it. Nothing comes to my mind. It seems to be saving and changing the format. Is it the @ sign perhaps??? Is the Data being changed in the READ code? (which has gone uneditedd for 6 years).
I’ve also, when saving the Data, wrapped the Data in curly brackets, and tried without them. Same thing.
Regards
Santa
# Set up Emails try say 100 set emailText1Array to table1ArrayController's arrangedObjects() as list try say (count of items of emailText1Array) tell application "System Events" to display dialog "testing Number One " & (AddressOn of item 1 of emailText1Array & return & emailAddressOne of item 1 of emailText1Array) as text on error errmsg number errnum my displayError("emailText1Array Error ', " & errmsg & " error number " & errnum as text) end try say 101 on error errmsg set emailText1Array to {} my displayError("saveTheGeneralData 1 " & errmsg as text) end try end tell end tell
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set theDictionary to ((path to desktop as text) & "Mail Manager Folder:General Data.plist") # thePPath set thePath to ((path to desktop as text) & "errors.plist") set {theData, theError} to current application's NSPropertyListSerialization's dataWithPropertyList:theDictionary format:(current application's NSPropertyListXMLFormat_v1_0) options:0 |error|:(reference) if theData = missing value then error theError's localizedDescription() as text set {theResult, theError} to theData's writeToFile:thePath options:(current application's NSDataWritingAtomic) |error|:(reference) if not theResult as boolean then error theError's localizedDescription() as text on error errmsg tell application "System Events" to display dialog "testing Shane's script " & errmsg end try
Saving the actual Data
tell application id "com.apple.systemevents" set plistParentRecord to make new property list item with properties {kind:record} as record set propertyListFile to make new property list file with properties {contents:plistParentRecord, name:thePPath} # # Actually Arrays # tell property list items of propertyListFile try make new property list item at end with properties {kind:list, name:"emailText1Key", value:{emailText1Array}} — <<< ALWAYS FAILS HERE WHEN ACTUALLY WRITING DATA, Says ‘1’, but never ‘2’ once written. say 1 end try
This is how I read the saved data, and reset the Array Controllers. Been OK for 6 years
set oldemailEntries to nowreadList's emailText1Key tell table1ArrayController to removeObjects:arrangedObjects() repeat with eachemail1 in oldemailEntries set eachemail to eachemail1's mutableCopy() tell table1ArrayController to addObject:eachemail end repeat On 11 Aug 2017, at 9:28 pm, Shane Stanley < email@hidden> wrote:
The most likely reason for failure is that you're passing something that can't be saved as a property list. You should use the method that returns an error, so you can find out why:
set {theData, theError} to current application's NSPropertyListSerialization's dataWithPropertyList:theDictionary |format|:(current application's NSPropertyListXMLFormat_v1_0) options:0 |error|:(reference) if theData = missing value then error theError's localizedDescription() as text set {theResult, theError} to theData's writeToFile:thePath options:(current application's NSDataWritingAtomic) |error|:(reference) if not theResult as boolean then error theError's localizedDescription() as text
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