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Genius idea! But problem...
Authored by: willbank on Jan 28, '03 11:55:13AM

Following the instrucs to the letter this just crashes my Mail.app when it attempts to run the applescript...

Anyone any thoughts as to why this should be? (I am afraid that I am not clever enough to decipher the console log except it throws up

OS Version: 10.2.3 (Build 6G30)

Command: Mail
PID: 617

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x40261aa0



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Genius idea! But problem...
Authored by: lx on Jan 28, '03 12:37:11PM
I haven't seen a crash like this, so I cannot offer any direct help. As a suggestion for debugging, you should try creating a very simple AppleScript (just put display dialog "Boo!" between a perform_mail_action on/end pair) and attaching it to a mail rule.

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Genius idea! But problem...
Authored by: willbank on Jan 30, '03 09:05:37AM

That all works fine but the minute it gets to the extract vCalendar stage it forces Mail to shutdown unexpectedly...

Is there any way that I can alter the contents of those lines (not being a scripter myself more analysis is a bit beyond me)?

Thanks for the help.



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Genius idea! But problem...
Authored by: raydeeoh on Jun 18, '03 08:35:43PM

Part of the problem might be all the "\" characters in the above script. I don't know AppleScript, but you have to remove them in order for that script to compile. Took me a while to figure that out! Once I did it, it seems to work.



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Genius idea! But problem...
Authored by: raydeeoh on Jun 18, '03 08:37:38PM

That's really weird - they are gone. They were there before -- perhaps an artifact of not being logged in and/or using the MacOSXHints search engine to hit that page. Very odd.



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