MacOS – AppleScript Error

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Edit: Well now it seems to just work. I have no idea what's going on lol.

Can someone tell me what's going on here?

tell application "Terminal"
    do script "killall Finder"
    tell application "Finder"
        repeat while running
        end repeat
    end tell

    close window 1
    quit
end tell

tell application "Finder"
    repeat while not running
    end repeat

    activate
end tell

Finder got an error: Application isn’t running." number -600

is what I get. If I comment out

repeat while not running
end repeat

I don't get the error, but if I leave that in and comment out

activate

Instead, I also don't get an error. So apparently they interact with each other to cause an error somehow. If I add a delay I can avoid the problem, but I wan't to know why what I have causes an error. I have OS X 10.9.4.

Best Answer

You're killing Finder from Terminal, then telling Finder to 'repeat while running'... you just killed it, it's not running. You're also not doing anything in the repeat while, just telling the script to spin its wheels at full revs. I really have no clue what you're trying to achieve from this.

If you just want to restart the Finder [Opt/right clicking it in the dock is one easy way] then try..

tell application "Finder" to quit
delay 3
set test to 0
repeat while test = 0
    log test
    tell application "System Events" to set test to count (every process whose name is "Finder")
    delay 2
    --//we do this even if active because it doesn't naturally come to front
    try
        tell application "Finder" to activate
    end try
    if (test > 0) then exit repeat
end repeat
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