About every 6 months I run a series of scripts. This time my scripts will not run nor will they display in the editor. Restoring from past versions does not help. I know the script files still contain information because I can open (but not use) them with TextEdit. Ideas?
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9.5), Applescript 2.6.1
Are you saying that these AppleScripts (*.applescript) cannot open in /Applications/Utilities/AppleScript Editor. If you have been using TextEdit, is it possible that they were saved as RTF documents by accident?
Sorry, I was unclear. These are SCPT files. I only used Textedit to ensure that they were not empty, and they were about the correct size. Textedit just displays chicken tracks. Thanks for replying.
Scripts can be saved in a number of formats including plain text (compiled at runtime), compiled (really, tokenized, but the difference is subtle), and run-only.
The first two forms (plain text and compiled) can be opened in the editor and changed at will. The latter form is only stored in its compiled/tokenized form and cannot be edited. From your description it sounds like your scripts fall into the latter category. There is no known way to restore from read-only to an editable form.
I can't imagine that this is the problem. I have opened these scripts regularly in the editor over the past 5 years and run them. Just so I know, what is the safest format in which to store scripts? I will try and use the time machine to get something back. Thank you for your reply.
Right. I have them back. If I double click on a problem SCRP file, I am looking at a blank screen, as if the file is empty. If I then do "file > duplicate" I get a new file with all my applescript in it 🙂 Some security problem? No idea. Thank you for your kind attention.
Thank you.
The only right answer
(there where all the other readers did not understand the question).
Applescript editor will not display my scripts
