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Can the following very special case be made work under Sequoia - and of course, how?:

# Tell applications in the target user's session to quit gracefully sudo launchctl asuser "$USER_ID" osascript -e ' tell application "System Events" launch set appList to name of every application process whose background only is false repeat with appName in appList try tel...

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Hello.

I can’t find any information on how to write a script that would allow me to create a duplicate of the tab that is currently active in the Script Editor.

In other words, it would be equivalent to

Copying the contents of the active tab in the Script Editor

Simulating a click on the ‘+’ button to the right of the tab title [this creates a ...


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Hello everyone,

I’m trying to determine the current frame fitting method that has been applied to a selected graphic frame in Adobe InDesign via either AppleScript or ExtendScript/JavaScript.

For example, I’d like to know if the selected frame is currently using:

Fit Content Proportionally Fill Frame Proportionally Fit Content to Frame Fit ...

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I have an applescript that is called by Filemaker. The Applescript calls serveral other scripts, located on a Google Drive to load those scripts, and then calls subfunctiona of those scripts.

Recently, another user of the script on a different unit, has experienced stalls at one point in the script.

Is it possible that the command to load another applescript, an...


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I have spent hours messing around with this using mostly Ai. My wife’s user account on my iMac has hundreds of Trash on My Mac emails, 687 today. It keeps filling up daily. I can not get a script to work that I can use in the Calendar to auto delete Trash on My Mac emails older than 2 days or at all. All the scripts show results deleted but nothing is ever deleted from the ac...


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