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Uninstall an AppleScript application from within Itself
Well, I actually wouldn't recommend AppleScript for the average user at all. I would recommend they try to find a solution that already exists or dive into learning Automator first before tackling a programming language of any kind.
Uninstall an AppleScript application from within Itself
I'd consider myself more skilled than the average user, but I didn't even know you could run OS X without the Finder (or Path Finder or something.) How do you quit the Finder without logging off? It just relaunches when you kill/force quit...
Uninstall an AppleScript application from within Itself
I have a "Quit Finder" menu item, just like any other application, that I added to the end of the Finder menu using the following defaults command:
defaults write com.apple.finder QuitMenuItem 1 ; killall Finderor you can use a basic AppleScript: tell application "Finder" to quitYou should consider yourself extremely lucky that you don't run into more bugs in the Finder. I have 5 open bug report tickets with Apple at the moment regarding Finder bugs alone! Like I said before, the Finder is decent but has a long way to go still!
Uninstall an AppleScript application from within Itself
interesting. again, out of curiosity, what are the Finder bugs you're seeing? I'd like to see if I can replicate them.
Uninstall an AppleScript application from within Itself
From user point of view, Finder has some bugs, but every version has been better. In Mac OS X 10.4 Finder there is the horrible lack of refresh, when some other app added something to a folder. The Finder can even be AppleScripted to refresh, but it didn't work.
From scripter's point of view, the Finder has a learning curve, but it is more understandable and reliable than e.g. System Events scripting. Thanks to tedw for nice Finder scripting.
The same:
It is valid System Events scripting. It doesn't work in spite of file scripting possibilities with System Events. When saved as an app and then run from AppleScript Editor in 10.6 it shows buggy behavior.
Besides, term "me" has changed meaning a little between Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.6. In the latter it means the script app, in the older the Script Editor, when run from the Script Editor. Have your backup ready if trying! The example shows one of AppleScript's flaws, the varying terminology in same task between apps.
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