Select finder only script started to throw an error 1799

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#1 
tell application "Finder"
   activate
   set visible of every process whose visible is true and name is not "Finder" to false
end tell

Used this for years and all of a sudden it starts to throw an error. Does anybody know how to fix this?

The error messages is:

tell application "Finder"
	activate
	set visible of every process whose visible = true and name ≠ "Finder" to false
		--> error number -1799
end tell
tell application "System Events"
	set visible of every process whose visible = true and name ≠ "Finder" to false
end tell

I am using OS10.13 btw

#2

Are you sure that this “non fatal error” is new ?

Here, running :

tell application "Finder"
	activate
	set visible of every process whose visible is true and name is not "Finder" to false
	display dialog "Here I am"
end tell

I get:


--Don't click, here is just an history.
tell application "Finder"
	activate
	set visible of every process whose visible = true and name ≠ "Finder" to false
		--> error number -1799
end tell
tell application "System Events"
	set visible of every process whose visible = true and name ≠ "Finder" to false
end tell
tell application "Finder"
	display dialog "Here I am"
		--> {button returned:"OK"}
end tell
Résultat :
{button returned:"OK"}

Yvan KOENIG running High Sierra 10.13.6 in French (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 23 novembre 2020 08:44:47

#3

Running your script, I get the same error massage.

and I started to look at it as the script threw a apple event timeout message this morning within seconds of running.

#4

Apparently, this error has been thrown out just as long ago. On Catalina too, I checked. It’s just that it’s not fatal, and if you hadn’t dealt with other errors, it would have gone unnoticed again.

For myself, I always use tell application “System Events” when dealing with processes. I recommend this template to you too to avoid confusion with error handling.

#5

Thanks KniazidisR!

I changed it to

also seems to cure the error on my site.

#6

The hint lies in the name and description of the suite this stuff belongs too:

#7

Thanks good to know!

#8

Thanks everybody!