Broken AppleScript in Lion (“can’t get container of file”)

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Moonhawk Kim Author

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Broken AppleScript in Lion (“can’t get container of file”)

I’m excerpting from a script that used to work well in SL but is now broken in Lion:

tell application "BBEdit"

set theOriginalFile to file of document 1

tell application "Finder"

set c to get container of theOriginalFile

return c

end tell

It used to return the path to the document, but now it generates an error: “Finder got an error: Can’t get container of file [path to the file].”

It’s not clear what the problem is. Also, it would be great if Apple (or someone) could compile a list of things that break in AppleScript under Lion and how to fix them.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Aug 3, 2011 8:38 AM

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Pierre L.

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Aug 3, 2011 9:44 AM in response to Moonhawk Kim

Does it work if you replace

set c to get container of theOriginalFile

with

set c to get container of file theOriginalFile

?

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Moonhawk Kim Author

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Aug 3, 2011 9:49 AM in response to Pierre L.

Yes, it does, Pierre! Thanks! That’s one of many alterations I did not try.

So, Lion AppleScript appears to have changed something about how references work? The variable “theOriginalFile” was created as a reference to a file, so that should be embedded in the variable itself without needing the class to be specified explicitly.

Thank you!

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