open file with applescript

No answer, just a similar problem. Sometimes I get the permissions error, and sometimes I get a "Connection is invalid." error (number -609) from simple scripts to open a file. I had also come to the opinion that it might have something to do with the new security model. Any ideas?

I have the exact same problem. I've confirmed that I can open the file within Finder with no problems. Oddly enough, once I've opened it in Finder, I can then go back and execute the Applescript command from within FileMaker Pro with no problems.

I'm running FileMaker Pro 11 Advanced with the latest version (11.0v3) which is recommended for Lion.

Okay, did a little digging and found a solution that works for me.

In my AppleScript code, I have the line "open FilePath" with "FilePath" being the variable name I assigned to the calculation that FileMaker Pro returns. When it's just that line, it fails. When I add "as alias" to the end, it works.

In short, I changed "open FilePath" to "open FilePath as alias" and that worked for me.

Hope this helps anyone else having this problem.

Yeah; I'm only running this on one script, and it's not a critical thing, just a convenience. I can't imagine having to go through and patch a whole lot of them.

Interesting that one application has the problem while another doesn't. I would've thought this would affect all of them.

Is this a calculated apple script in Filemaker?

I am having issues using the Send Event function in FMPRO 11 to preview. It totally is busted in 10.7. But it is just in one little area of my database, so, if I can perhaps use this work around that would be huge.

So my code looks something like this:

So what would I need to change?

Hmm, that doesn't seem to work, as now I get an error message saying something like (this was a test file)

File /Volumes/ericdano/test.pdf wasn't found

Then

Unknown Error -43

Actually, that doesn't even work in AppleScript at all, as it gives the same error. It throws up this message

set myPath to "/Volumes/ericdano/Computer_Music_2011-08.pdf"

tell application "Finder" to open myPath as alias

If you change it to this:

set myPath to "/Volumes/ericdano/Computer_Music_2011-08.pdf"

tell application "Finder" to open file myPath as alias

It throws up this message

"Can't make file "/Volumes/ericdano/Computer_Music_2011-08.pdf" of application "Finder" into type alias

So........dang........

Yikes, no, that doesn't work at all.

Actually, I think the major problem is PREVIEW. If I use Adobe Reader then it seems to work fine in regular applescript and in FileMaker. At least on 10.6. I'll try it on 10.7 and see if it makes any difference.

But none of the tell application "Finder" things work at all using Preview but

"tell application \"Adobe Acrobat Pro\" to open \"" & Lesson Materials::FilePath & "\""

Works fine in FileMaker.

Ok, now it works in FileMaker and in AppleScript (using Preview)

"set MyPath to \"" & Lesson Materials::FilePath & "\"" & ¶ &

"tell application \"Finder\" to open MyPath as alias"

Works fine in FileMaker now if I change back to Lesson Materials::FilePath having "ericdano:Computer_Music_2011_08.pdf" instead of the other way.

Thanks for the help.

Updating to 10.7.2 seems to have fixed my Applescript problem.