Platform: macOS 12.3.1 Xcode: 13.3 I had Xcode ARC turned ON. AppleScript should be declared like below. NSAppleScript *script = [[NSAppleScript alloc] initWithSource:strScript]; When call AppleScript, open "Monitor.app" app will observe some memory leak. I try to wrap AppleScript by autoReleasePool. Memery leak still exists @autoreleasepool { NSAppleScript *script = [[NSAppleScript alloc] initWithSource:strScript]; //script to do something } Is there other suggestion to do gabage collection to release memory?

I have a plain text file saved to my Desktop the result of an earlier script. I have a simple AppleScript telling Finder to open the text file: set open_this to (path to desktop as text) & "Test.txt" tell application "Finder" to open alias open_this This results in the error: "The document "Test.txt" could not be opened. You don't have permission. To view or change permissions, select the item in the Finder and choose File > Get Info." Weirdly, if I duplicate the text file and tell Finder to open it I get: "Finder got an error: Handler can’t handle objects of this class." I've check permissions on the file and they look normal – my user account has read & write permission. I have given "Full Disk Access" to Script Debugger, my AppleScript IDE. This was a known bug in macOS 12.3/12.3.1 and I thought it has been fixed in 12.4 when I tested the beta. But, it is definitely a bug in macOS 12.4. Does anyone have a way in AppleScript of telling Finder to open a file ?

I have an apple script which moves all files within a folder into a new folder according to the first 6 characters of the filenames. If the folder already exists, the files get moved into that existing folder instead. If the file already exists in the new/existing folder, the file to be moved into the folder gets a "copy" extension to the filename – which is not in the script, it's a system function ;-) My question: **Is it possible to move all existing files into a subfolder (named "_alt" for example), before the other files get the "copy"-extension? ** This is my existing script: set mgFilesFolder to (choose folder with prompt "Choose folder…") (* get the files of the mgFilesFolder folder *) tell application "Finder" to set fileList to files of mgFilesFolder (* iterate over every file *) repeat with i from 1 to number of items in fileList set this_item to item i of fileList set this_file_Name to name of this_item as string set thisFileCode to characters 1 thru 6 of this_file_Name as text log thisFileCode tell application "Finder" try set nf to make new folder at mgFilesFolder with properties {name:thisFileCode} end try end tell end repeat set sourceFolder to mgFilesFolder set destinationFolder to mgFilesFolder tell application "Finder" set the_files to (get files of mgFilesFolder) repeat with this_file in the_files

I have just installed Xcode 14 Beta but there is no option to make an AppleScript project. Is this no longer available ?

I am trying to get the title of the slides.  But it is not working with apple script, can anyone please help me with this? This is the code I have written in AppleScript. tell application "Keynote" activate tell the first slide set slideone to first slide of document 1 set mytitlename to title of slideone end tell end tell

I have a simple ApplScript which I have decided to put into a User Interface. In Xcode, I have made an AppleScript project and started to copy the code from the AppleScript into Xcode. From a button I have the following code on btnFolderClick_(sender) set theFolderPath to (choose folder with prompt "Choose The Folder With Scans") #Count Number Of Images in Folder tell application "Finder" set numberOfImages to number of files in folder (((theFolderPath))) end tell end btnFolderClick_ When I Run it, I am getting the following error... -[AppDelegate btnFolderClick:]: Not authorized to send Apple events to Finder. (error -1743) I sort of understand the error but not sure how to proceed. Can anyone offer any solution please. Thank You

Hi All, I'm looking to execute some application installation in silent mode. Currently, the main issue is avoiding macOS user password prompt by pop-up dialogs with the user's password. The main idea (of the solution, I suggest) - is providing a macOS username & password as script parameters (inside the script). I've tried several ways including AppleScript usage, based on providing a username & password, and "with administrator privileges"... Also - AppleScript usage, based on application run (like: tell application "Terminal")... Tried - shell scripts... No success! Not sure if I'm doing this is correct enough, or if the selected solution is correct at all. The maximum that I've got: is silent execution stuck (all over attempts - pop the user password dialog). Thanks a lot!

Hi, I have tried several tools to send Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) signals to an external device (e.g. BlueSee BLE Debugger or BSE32 BLE Terminal from the App Store). Unfortunately, I have not found a way to access these tools via command line. So I wondered, if sending Bluetooth signals is maybe even possible via command line without additional apps? Or if anyone knows a tool which I could use. Thank you very much in advance!

I used this script to automatically save attachments of some incoming messages in apple mail. Sine Monterey, this doesn't work anymore. Syntax check gives no errors, but in my mail rules the script doesn't run at all. I did a lot of research to find a solution, with no success. Any help is appreciated. Marcus This is the code … using terms from application "Mail" on perform mail action with messages theMessages for rule theRule -- set up the attachment folder path tell application "Finder" set folderName to "WebApp-Beiträge Mail" set attachmentsFolder to ("Volumes:Daten HD:Workspace:Universität_Saarland:projekte_Universität_Saarland:2070_uni_2101_WebDev_WebApp:struktur_text_navigation_2070:Beiträge:" & folderName) as text end tell tell application "Mail" repeat with eachMessage in theMessages --set the sub folder for the attachments to the senders mail address. -- All future attachments from this sender will the be put here. set subFolder to (extract address from reply to of eachMessage) -- set up the folder name for this mail message's attachments. We use the time stamp of the  date received time stamp set {year:y, month:m, day:d, hours:h, minutes:min} to eachMessage's date received --set timeStamp to (y & "-" & my pad(d) & "-" & my pad(m as integer) & "_" & my pad(h) & "-" & my pad(min)) as string -- month as number set timeStamp to (y & "-" & my pad(m as integer) & "-" & my pad(d) & "_" & my pad(h) & "-" & my pad(min)) as string -- month as number yyy-mm-dd --set timeStamp to (y & "_" & my pad(d) & "-" & m & "_" & my pad(h) & "-" & my pad(min)) as string set attachCount to count of (mail attachments of eachMessage) if attachCount is not equal to 0 then -- use the unix /bin/test command to test if the timeStamp folder  exists. if not then create it and any intermediate directories as required if (do shell script "/bin/test -e " & quoted form of ((POSIX path of attachmentsFolder) & "/" & subFolder & "/" & timeStamp) & " ; echo $?") is "1" then -- 1 is false do shell script "/bin/mkdir -p " & quoted form of ((POSIX path of attachmentsFolder) & "/" & subFolder & "/" & timeStamp) end if try -- Save the attachment repeat with theAttachment in eachMessage's mail attachments set originalName to name of theAttachment set savePath to attachmentsFolder & ":" & subFolder & ":" & timeStamp & ":" & originalName try save theAttachment in file (savePath) end try end repeat --on error msg --display dialog msg end try end if end repeat end tell end perform mail action with messages end using terms from on pad(n) return text -2 thru -1 of ("0" & n) end pad

Hello The notarization of my AppleScript App fails. i created a AppleScript Application with the Script Editor. i exported and signed the app with my Developer ID Application certificate. Created the *dmg installer: `hdiutil create -volname AppName -srcfolder /pathToApp -ov -format UDBZ NameOfApp.dmg ` signed the installer with cmd command: codesign -s "Developer ID Application: [DevName] (id)" --timestamp NameOfApp.dmg startet the notarization in the cmd with: xcrun altool --notarize-app --primary-bundle-id "My-id" -u "[uerName]" -p "[pw]" -t osx -f /pathTo/NameOfApp.dmg The result is that the notarization fails. has anybody an idea where i can proceed? Lorenzo

Hello, In my company, we want to connect home user folder automatically in one click, without need to go in Finder/Go/Connect to, etc. For that we want to push on Mac an Applescript in the form of an application with VMWare WorkSpace One. In this script is filled in the path of network shared folder. The name of the shared folder is identical to the Mac user session (AD identifier), and therefore specific to each user. The command in the script is this: mount volume "SMB://server/data/users/~[username]" The variable ~[username] is not recognized. This script works with a fixed network path. Which variable could I use? Or maybe my script is to simple and I need to set the user variable before. As I am a newbie in Apple Script, I need an help. I hope to be clear enough. Thank for your help. Br,

Hello I am using 2 mac pros with both Monterrey 12.4. and using magic mouse and magic keyboard. Lets name Macpro A and Macpro B, Macpro A has bluetooth connection to magic mouse and keyboard and I am able to use Universal Control seamlessly across both devices from my bt keyboard/mouse. On macpro B, I have an applescript that opens an application and input 2 strings, each string in a text field using keystroke. The string with special characters gets truncated when applesript tries to write the stirng to the text field. For example, the string "YrR#truT0fmuD$123'45" will get truncated to "YrR#t" The truncation is very inconsistent but I discovered that if I run the same script on macpro A, it works fine and when Universal control is off then it also works fine. My example script is below, i've removed the application name on run argv -- Launch myapplication.app activate application "myapplication" tell application "System Events" -- Wait until it launches repeat until (exists window "My Application" of application process "JavaApplicationStub") delay 1 end repeat delay 1 -- proccess tell application process "JavaApplicationStub" -- window of the process tell window "My Application" -- enter name set focused of text field 1 to true keystroke "a" using command down keystroke (item 1 of argv) -- enter lastname set focused of text field 2 to true keystroke "a" using command down keystroke (item 2 of argv) -- click Login # click button 5 end tell end tell end tell end run

I would like to be able to get either the key code or the characters/text from an NSEvent/KeyEvent. Absolutely no idea how to do this as the documentation I have found so far has been very limited. I believe I need to create an instance of NSEvent but I do not know how. My script is below. I am working on a speedrun macro for Minecraft. This script is fully functioning as is, but currently all it does is check if the control key has been pressed via checking the modifier flags of NSEvent. use framework "AppKit" use scripting additions global ca set ca to current application # you may change the following variables global seed set seed to "8398967436125155523" # do not change anything below this line to isModifierPressed(modifier) ((ca's NSEvent's modifierFlags()) / modifier as integer) mod 2 is equal to 1 end isModifierPressed repeat if isModifierPressed(ca's NSEventModifierFlagControl) then execute() delay 0.01 end repeat on execute() tell application "System Events" delay 0.1 keystroke tab delay 0.02 keystroke return delay 0.02 repeat 3 times keystroke tab delay 0.02 end repeat keystroke return delay 0.02 repeat 2 times keystroke tab delay 0.02 end repeat repeat 3 times keystroke return delay 0.02 end repeat repeat 4 times keystroke tab delay 0.02 end repeat keystroke return delay 0.02 repeat 3 times keystroke tab delay 0.02 end repeat keystroke seed delay 0.02 repeat 6 times keystroke tab delay 0.02 end repeat keystroke return end tell end execute

do shell script quoted form of "~/ddsds.app/Contents/MacOS/ddsd" with administrator privileges App is not responding, it is launched ie Finder icon is shown but UI is not shown.      if (!SMJobSubmit(kSMDomainSystemLaunchd, (__bridge CFDictionaryRef)job, m_auth, &error)) App is not responding, it is launched ie Finder icon is shown but UI is not shown. Same piece of code works on BigSur and Monterey

I am trying to get a workflow in Automator. I recorded action via "Watch Me Do". And when I replayed, it works well. When I dragged the action into AppleScript editor, it does not work anymore. Screenshots : All I want is to have something that works for commune_1 and edit the script to do the same actions for commune_2, commune_3 and so on.