When I open directory window in AppleScript Editor, I notice that most of the applications show twice, e.g. AddressBook, but not the Finder. Is there a special reason for this? I get the same dictionary if I click either of them.
Cuneyt:
Usually it indicates that there are multiple copies of an application within the user of the Editor. For instance, I have two copies of Photoshop 7.0 on my system, simply due to my own foolishness when I installed a Photoshop add-on a couple of years ago. I have simply never bothered to erase the second copy.
Is it possible that you have copied your Applications folder somewhere? If you are running 10.4.x, you can use spotlight to test this out. Just enter the name of an application that shows up twice in your Dictionary list, and see if there are two copies, and if so, where is the second one.
Craig,
Thanks for the reply. Spotlight returns single result. But it reports double when my external cloned drive mounted. I suppose, it also counts the cloned applications even if the drive was not mounted. There may be a cached file for those dictionary entries.
Browser: Safari 416.13
Operating System: Mac OS X (10.4)
Most likely that is the issue. User directories are crammed full of plist and xml data files covering all sorts of things, that may very well be what your Editor is finding.