Scripting question: how to suppress Aperture dialog when exporting?

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Hi Forum,I started to write an AppleScript for Aperture to perform a backup. The standard backup procedures of Aperture are not quite right for me so I decided to write my own using AppleScript.One question which arised was how I can supppress the dialog box which Aperture opens when an export could not be done because of a missing master. I want to suppress the dialog box and instead get an error returned from Aperture into AppleScript. is that possible?Koen van Dijken

léonie · Accepted Answer

Hello Koen,have you solved your problem by now? For me the following does work:I does not seem to be possible to set Aperture to suppress the warning, so catching the error in a "try" clause will not help. The best option is to check, if the master image is online, before trying to export and skipping the offline images, like in this example,  see: http:/dreschler-fischer.de/scripts/ExportMastersWithoutWarning.scpt.zipon run {}-- export masters, but check it they are online before trying to export-- skip if not online          set exportFolder to (choose folder with prompt "Choose an export folder")          tell application "Aperture"                    set imageSel to (get selection)                    if imageSel is {} then                              error "Please select an image."                    else                              repeat with i from 1 to count of imageSel                                        try                                                  set onlne to get online of (item i of imageSel)                                                  if onlne then export {itemi of imageSel} naming folders withfolder naming policy ¬                                                            "Project Name" to exportFolder                                        end try                              end repeat                              return imageSel                    end if          end tellend runRegardsLéonie

Koen van Dijken · Answer

Thanks for your answer Leonie. I&#x27;m glad you came up with the same idea as I did in case suppressing the dialogbox was impossible. I implemented this and it works fine.Koen