Comments on: AppleScript System Events Bug

By: Matt Sephton

Matt Sephton — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 20:45:09 +0000

Failed 2 times out of 102

By: Axel Munker

Axel Munker — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 22:31:13 +0000

Does not run once. Error message (when run from script editor):
“System Events” hat einen Fehler erhalten: NSInternalScriptError
(“System Events” received an error: NSInternalScriptError)
in the line “if UI elements enabled is false then” in “on UIEnabled()”
I use OS 10.4.2, iPhoto 5.0.4, both German versions on PowerMac G5.
Keep up the great work!

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 21:11:17 +0000

Infuriating: Testing a few new tweaks and trying to further isolate and workaround the problem; two machines which previously failed are now running the original test script without errors. Basically none. error in 1000 runs.

Why? I have no idea. Maybe it’s some of the workarounds from the new scripts cleaned out whatever was kludging up System Events?

But the script still crashes almost instantly in 10.3.9, so at least that’s consistent.

A bit more testing and I’ll post the revised test script.

By: MDavis

MDavis — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 18:28:30 +0000

1 for 102
3 for 104
28 for 134
14 for 118
Script Editor Crashed Report sent to Apple
1 for 102
0 for 100
1 for 102
10 for 120
2 for 104
2 for 104
2 for 104

About 5% failure overall.

15″ Powerbook, OS X 10.4.2, iPhoto 5.0.4

Ditto on the readiness to pay, and major need for these!
Been using an external App to syncronize multiple people’s cameras from the same event prior to import, but need to fix some old ones before I figured out how to do that.

Thanks for looking into this, and for the hard work!

By: ElGanzoLoco

ElGanzoLoco — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 03:19:52 +0000

Oops, sorry, forgot to mention OS version :
OS X 10.4.2 on a Powerbook. iPhoto version 5.0.4. Everything is localized in french.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:48:28 +0000

I just ran the test all morning and got these numbers:

Failed 658 of 21316 times, 3.09%

I filed a bug with Apple and will post that here later today.

By: Timothy Hirzel

Timothy Hirzel — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:06:57 +0000

Failed 3 of 106 times
Failed 1 of 102 times

Hope that helps. I am running 10.4 on a powerbook with iPhoto 5, and the scripts don’t seem to do anything from the menu, so it sounds like this issue. I will gladly plop down my 6 bucks if this can work, I’ve got a month of photos one month off!
thanks!
tim

By: ElGanzoLoco

ElGanzoLoco — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:40:11 +0000

About the same numbers as above for me :

0 for 100 times
0 for 100 times
1 for 102 times
0 for 100 times
0 for 100 times
0 for 100 times
2 for 104 times
3 for 106 times

etc…
The iPhoto scripts won’t run at all.

Also yesterday, when I tried running the script through Script editor, it kept telling me something like “Can’t set ‘class uien’ to ‘true’ : wrong permissions”. I re-downloaded the script today and it doesn’t happen anymore, but I have the System Events bug now…

Keep up the good work, I can’t wait to use your scripts, as I took more than a thousand pics with the wrong time set!

Cheers,
Lazare