'Script Editor' Concerns: Redirects to 'Utilities' Folder & Opens in Illegible Code

Drag and drop the Scrpt Editor from the Applications/Utilities folder to your Dock, and lock it there. When you single-click the Script editor, it will open a file chooser, and I typically click Desktop and New Document to have it open with a blank document. Why you thought you should open the script editor application with itself remains a mystery…

Script Editor is dependent on the Scripting Dictionary support for individual applications (including the Finder) that can be found in File menu : Open Dictionary… . Once you select a dictionary (e.g. Finder) then you need to know enough AppleScript to wrap those reserved words with AppleScript, which is described in more detail here. More hand-holding is found here.

Typically you enter your AppleScript syntax and it will be in purple text until you click the hammer (compile) button which will transform your code into multi-color text — unless it finds syntax errors, which are usually codes with cryptic descriptions. When you want to save your script, you have a choice on the Save panel of how you want to save the code:

• text: .applescript extension, source
• script or script bundle: .scpt, .scptd compiled and double-click to run
• app: .app, compiled and runnable via double-click.

The very first line of code in any new script should be: use scripting additions.

If you want more information on writing a script to do something, please advise.

Points 1, 2, 3, 4 are OK: you follow the path of the Script Editor app and you launch it. Nothing wrong or unusual.

Point 5 makes no sense: there's no reason to open the app you have just launched with the app itself. The result, in fact, is point 6 which of course is useless.

Just open a real script on point 5 (for example, one that you find in /Library/Scripts/ or dowloaded elsewhere on internet or simply choose New Document to make a blank script).

You are attempting to open Script Editor with itself. That is the binary context of the Script Editor app.

Can you explain what you mean by "I am Redirected to the Utilities folder"?

It sounds like you open Script Editor and Script Editor launches with a file open dialog. I think this is a change in behaviour when you turn on iCloud Drive and/or Desktop and Documents. Instead of getting an untitled window by default, you get an open panel. You can click on the "New Document" button at the bottom of the open dialog to get a new document.

Why are you opening Script Editor app with ... the same Script Editor app?

It's like, say, opening with Word the Word app itself.

Script Editor remembers which folder it was last launched from. If you switch to the Desktop, and quit Script Editor, the next time you launch it, it will present Desktop instead of Utilities folder.