AppleScript to Shutdown

This is an extension to the closed thread at AppleScript to Shutdown

In the last answer an AppleScript was posted by Noaks to recursively quit all open applications before a shutdown.

tell application "System Events"
 set ProcNm_ to name of every application process whose visible is true
 repeat with i_ from 1 to count items of ProcNm_
 set TarProc_ to item i_ of ProcNm_
 try
 tell application TarProc_ to quit
 end try
 end repeat
 shut down

end tell

The code was not working for me in Mac OS X Sierra.

Posted on Jan 31, 2018 9:59 AM

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acsrarmin Author

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Jan 31, 2018 10:03 AM in response to acsrarmin

I made this working by changing the execution of the loop to quit open programs to be executed outside of the Systems Event context like this:

tell application "System Events"
    set ProcNm_ to name of every application process whose visible is true
end tell

repeat with i_ from 1 to count items of ProcNm_
    set TarProc_ to item i_ of ProcNm_
    try
        tell application TarProc_ to quit  -- you can add "without saving" if you need no action!
    end try
end repeat
tell application "System Events"

   shut down

end tell

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AppleScript to Shutdown