Re: Where Are Prefs for Open Windows in "Windows" Palette Saved?

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 19:34:24 -0700

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<<attachment: Parse_the_BBEdit_Saved-State_File_for_Open_File_Paths.scptd.zip>>


On 03/18/2021, at 13:04, Sam Hathaway <[email protected]> wrote:

On 18 Mar 2021, at 10:10, Bill Kochman wrote:

I started this discussion thread with a simple question: Where is the list of open BBEdit windows stored on my hard drive?

If you’ll only be satisfied with a direct answer to your exact question, then here:

~/Library/BBEdit/Saved Application State-{Some GUID}.appstate

But I doubt you’ll be able to do anything with it.


Hey Sam,

I'll take that challenge.  😎

It wasn't simple by any means, but it wasn't especially difficult either.

I'm naming the document in BBEdit but saving it is left to the user.  If I was doing this for myself I'd auto-save the file to a specific location on my hard drive, but I'm done for the day.

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Chris


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# Auth: Christopher Stone <[email protected]>
# dCre: 2021/03/18 21:10
# dMod: 2021/03/18 21:27
# Appl: BBEdit, Finder, System Events
# Task: Parse the BBEdit Saved-State File for Open File Paths.
# Libs: None
# Osax: None
# Tags: @Applescript, @Script, @ASObjC, @Finder, @System_Events, @Parse, @BBEdit, @Saved-State
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use framework "Foundation"
use scripting additions
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set bbeditLibFolderAlias to ((path to library folder from user domain as text) & "BBEdit") as alias
set tempDirAlias to (path to temporary items from user domain)

tell application "Finder"
    set bbeditSavedStateFile to (files of bbeditLibFolderAlias whose name starts with "Saved Application State") as alias list

    

    if length of bbeditSavedStateFile = 1 then
        set {bbeditSavedStateFile} to bbeditSavedStateFile
    else
        error "Too many saved-state files were found!"
    end if

    

    set tempSavedStateFile to (duplicate bbeditSavedStateFile to tempDirAlias with replacing) as alias

    

end tell

set tempSavedStateFilePath to POSIX path of tempSavedStateFile

set fileURLList to {}

tell application "System Events"
    tell property list file tempSavedStateFilePath
        tell property list item "OpenDocuments"
            set itemList to (get property list items's value)
            repeat with i in itemList
                try
                    set urlString to i's |Location|'s |FileURLString|
                    tell AppleScript
                        set posixPath to (current application's class "NSURL"'s URLWithString:urlString)'s |path|() as text
                        set end of fileURLList to posixPath
                    end tell
                end try
            end repeat
        end tell
    end tell
end tell

set {oldTIDS, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {AppleScript's text item delimiters, linefeed}

set fileURLList to fileURLList as text

set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldTIDS

set newDocName to "BBEdit Open Files – " & dateStamp(current date) & ".txt"

tell application "BBEdit"
    activate
    make new document with properties {name:newDocName, text:fileURLList, bounds:{303, 45, 1617, 1196}}
end tell

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--» HANDLERS
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on dateStamp(theDate)
    set dateDelim to "-"
    set timeDelim to "."
    tell theDate as «class isot» as string to ¬
        set {yyyy, mm, dd, hh, mm, ss} to ¬
            {its text 1 thru 4, its text 6 thru 7, its text 9 thru 10, its text 12 thru 13, its text 15 thru 16, its text 18 thru 19}
    return yyyy & dateDelim & mm & dateDelim & dd & space & hh & timeDelim & mm & timeDelim & ss
end dateStamp
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