On Dec 13, 2012, at 1:42 PM, Emmanuel LEVY <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Do your records include many many keys? > > We were hit by a limit on the number of "keys" that AppleScript can store, those "keys" including the records' keys, all the variables' names and all the handlers' names. > > This is easily tested: > > -------- > display dialog "ready to bug?" > repeat with i from 1 to 10000 > try > run script "set r to {|" & i & "|:1}" > on error -- Internal Table Overflow: your app is no longer usable, quit ASAP > display dialog i > exit repeat > end try > end repeat > -------- > > Emmanuel That is horrifying. It's like the old 32k limit on script size. I just did a test and I hit the same limit on Tiger. Intriguingly, on 9.2 I hit the limit at half of that. Which means someone thought to kinda fix it at some point. So this isn't the problem. -Mark Some days I feel like I am an experimental archeologist.