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Bruce Robertson <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:41:49 -0800
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On Dec 13, 2012, at 10:38 AM, Mark Lively wrote:

> On Dec 13, 2012, at 1:28 PM, Bill Steele <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> 
>> I have a script that reads a series of Filemaker records, doing some processing and writing out a file based on each one. As it goes along it accumulates some information (title, abstract, filename, etc.) about each item in an Applescript record; at the end it read throughout the recoed and writes out a summary -- essentially a table of contents. 
>> 
>> All fine until we upgraded to Mountain Lion. Now it reads two or three records and then hangs in the middle of the next one. At first I though one of the Filemaker records was corrupted, but switching them around doesn't change the results. It seems as if Applescript is saying "Hey, I can only do so much of this and then I have to quit." The information read in from the Filemaker record presumably is overwritten each time, as it's assigned to the same Applescript variable. The best idea I can come up within that Applescript can only store so much information ion its own record. Or that the stuff being read in *doesn't* feet flushed. 
>> 
>> Ran the same script on a machine running Tiger. No problems. 
>> 
>> Any ideas?
>> 
> A lot has changed between mountain lion and tiger.
> 
> I know records used to have issues where they leaked some memory but that was fixed.
> 
> Do you know where it is hanging?  Writing to the files? Reading from filemaker?
> 
> Are you using the same version of Filemaker both places?  I know Filemaker broke a lot of Applescript support someplace between 9 and 11 and I've caught some nasty resource leaks in 11 that weren't in 10.
> 
> -Mark
> Who wrote a filemaker plugin to plug said resource leak.

Can you say more about fixing a FileMaker resource link with a plugin?

How could we observe a resource leak?

Is FileMaker 12 affected?

Bruce Robertson

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