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I posted this message to the Smile list a few days ago but it hasn't
appeared. Perhaps someone here knows what's happening...
Back in 2006 I wrote this script for Eudora users
<http://bd8.com/eudora/scripts/#searcheudorasettings>
that allows you to search for settings matching a regular expression,
and the script continues to work for many users, but users of later
versions of Mac OS X have been complaining it doesn't work any more.
Since I have no access to anything later than 10.4.11 I have been
reluctant to fix the problem and involve myself in long Q&A sessions
with users who don't understand AppleScript. However one persistant
user finally persuaded me to send him a couple of tests and I
discover that AppleScript is eating, annihilating, the entire
contents of a handler that is meant to return the full list of Eudora
settings. The man in question has opened the script in Script Editor
(10.5.8) and something called AppleScript Editor (10.7.*) and on
editing and saving the file size shrinks from 199,180 bytes to 9,729
as a result of the emptying of the handler.
Now I have no idea how to deal with such rogues and wonder if it
would make any difference if they recompiled and saved in Smile,
since it seems to be a massive bug in AppleScript. If not, then I
shall have to supply the settings in a separate file and have the
script read that. But who knows what other deficiencies I will bring
to light in the process.
Hope someone can enlighten me. Perhaps these people are simply
holding their computers by the wrong corner!
JD
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