On Oct 10, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Bill Steele wrote: > I've seen occasions where a script will not run from the script menu, but runs fine when I open it in the editor. Worse, it doesn't happen every time. > > On Oct 10, 2011, at 11:16 AM, Emmett Gray wrote: > >> >> No error, so I didn't bother throwing in a dialog. How can you trap an error if there is none? On a hunch I also tried setting the ownership to root (chmod -R 0:0) but that didn't have any effect. Since I have a workaround, I'm not in need. But I'd like to know what's going on. Has anyone else seen this behavior with any other AppleScript - i.e., it will run from the Editor but not as a saved script or app? > Just had a thought. Was there anything in the console log? There is a bunch that can show up there when the system says, nope not going to do it. -Mark Who just realized he has done AppleScript on 11 different major versions of the OS.