Ventura and Path to Me

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#1

I have found that using “path to me” in a a compiled AppleScript application leads to an error that is something like:
Can’t make “414E8BFC-6972-456F-8106-9DF602ED9556:d:Subject and Email.txt” into type alias. (-1700)

specifically in Ventura. Has anyone else experienced this? Is there some alternate, other than “path to current application” ?

#4

This error is most likely related to something else.

#5

Path to me works as expected on my Ventura computer–both if run from within Script Debugger and if run as an AppleScript application on the desktop. I agree with KniazidisR that something else is causing the error, and the reported error message supports this.

-- results if run from within Script Debugger
set thePath to path to me --> alias "Macintosh HD:Users:Robert:Desktop:Test.app:"
tell application "Mail" to set thePath to path to me --> alias "Macintosh HD:Users:Robert:Desktop:Test.app:"

-- results if run as an app on the desktop
set thePath to path to me
display dialog thePath as text --> Macintosh HD:Users:Robert:Desktop:Test.app:
set thePath to path to current application
display dialog thePath as text --> Macintosh HD:Users:Robert:Desktop:Test.app:
tell application "Mail" to set thePath to path to me
display dialog thePath as text --> Macintosh HD:Users:Robert:Desktop:Test.app:
#6

My bad, I did not think that through. It was not working with path to me, and I got it working with path to application so I figured it was path to me that was broken.

But it was not path to me that was throwing the error, it was when I was trying to create an alias to a file in the same directory as my script.

use AppleScript version "2.4" -- Yosemite (10.10) or later
use scripting additions
use script "FileManagerLib" version "2.3.5"
set pathTome to path to me as text
set parsedPath to items 1 thru -3 of parseText(pathTome, ":")
set {saveTID, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {AppleScript's text item delimiters, {":"}}
set initialPath to parsedPath as string
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to saveTID
set thePath to (initialPath & ":" & "SavePath.txt") as alias

So it is the “set thePath to…” that is generating the error, but I can’t figure out what I did to generate that string of hex that appears in the error? Again, I have only see this error on Ventura.

#7

I’ve seen the error in Ventura too. I moved inside tell application “system events” and it works reliably.

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