I'll try that. thanks. sorry for all of my lack of know how on this. I'm not used to this language. lol! and I am by no means the best programer in the world. I used to script for something else that's not to be disgussed on this list. lol!
S On Jan 6, 2011, at 6:42 PM, Jon Cohn wrote: > I got the following to compile and run with no error on my computer.. > > THe code you used had 3 basic differences > > 1. wrapped the entire script in a try block. Try blocks are used so that if > any part of the script fails it does not abort, but handles it. Since you > didn't catch any errors in the code, this would just cause any errors to be > silently ignored. > 2. I switched around the quit statement it should work the same either way, > but there is a slight chance that your way would start Mail if it was not > running and then immediately quit. I don't think my way would but I don't > have a way to confirm. > 3. I used "do shell script" instead of tell terminal. THe tell terminal > should have significantly more overhead. Also, AppleScript kept giving errors > about unknown symbol until I doubled the backslash. > > So here is my tested results: > quit the application "Mail" > set a to do shell script "sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\\ Index vacuum;" > > -- The below is commented out since A is blank when there are no errors --say > "The result is " & a > tell application "Mail" to activate > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
