Tahoe AppleScript Timeouts
A reader writes:
As a fellow AppleScripter, I thought you might enjoy knowing about a small Tahoe Finder bug that I have not seen mentioned anywhere and that caused all my carefully crafted (and expertly developed, of course) automations to grind to a halt and collapse, seemingly at random.
For some unfathomable reason, it is no longer permitted to
tell application "Finder" to empty trashwhen the trash is already empty: instead of erroring out or, as before, working silently, the operation now hangs indefinitely. This means that scripts that include this seemingly throwaway line to clean up after themselves will randomly start failing with no error message. In Keyboard Maestro, inline scripts fail quickly with a timeout message, but external scripts just hang.The trick is simply to substitute
if ((items of trash) as list) is not {} then empty trash.
For me, running that script through Script Editor or other means fails with a timeout (error -1712, a.k.a. errAETimeout) after 2 minutes. Recording an Activity Monitor sample of Finder seems to show that Finder is not busy doing anything related to the script. It’s as if it never received the command or else it replied but the reply got lost.
A small percentage of SpamSieve users are seeing a similar issue with Apple Mail on Tahoe. Some very basic/quick commands to Mail time out, with Mail also looking like it’s not even processing the command. Sometimes AppleScript reports error -600 (a.k.a. procNotFound) instead of a timeout. Oddly, this seems to almost exclusively happen with POP accounts.
There was a similar bug in macOS Bug Sur, but it only affected apps running in Rosetta.
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The dumb kiddies that work on these operating these days ain’t got time for this AppleScript shit. They probably roll their eyes every time a dinosaur within the company has some clout to push back or demand that the thing continue functioning.
Honestly, like, do you, like, expect genz to, like, support your, uhm, old shitty tech, uhm, like, literally nobody cares about????
Actually, Leo, it seems to be Gen X and Boomers pushing the tried-and-true into the trash at Apple; but don’t let that get in the way of your self-righteous anger.
