Okay then—you can be thankful, in that case, that trigger scoping works
(although that was fixed a while ago now).

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Christopher Harwood <
[email protected]> wrote:

> > I wouldn't give up so quickly, at least not if you're not using QuicKeys
> for anything else.
>
> No worries there, I use QuicKeys almost as much as I use QS.  I might come
> back to this script at another time to teach myself more about the
> AppleScript *danse de la paths*, but for now I need to quit once I have a
> sufficiently functional solution.  There's that whole "actual job" thing at
> which I am trying to be more efficient :)
>
> On Tuesday, July 31, 2012 12:16:01 AM UTC-5, Daniel wrote:
>>
>> I wouldn't give up so quickly, at least not if you're not using QuicKeys
>> for anything else. AppleScript's file handling is really messy—there are
>> NeXTStep paths (Macintosh HD:some:folder:), UNIX paths (/some/folder),
>> "files" created by `file "Macintosh HD:some:NeXT:path:"` (these sometimes
>> appear automatically from NeXT path strings, maybe always), "POSIX files"
>> created by `POSIX file "/some/unix/path"`, and aliases created from either
>> type of "file", except when they can't be (i.e. AppleScript throws weird
>> errors and won't convert, at least not directly).
>>
>> I would try, among a number of things, trying to convert between these
>> formats with bastardized lines like
>>
>> set end of all_paths to (file (path to this_path as text) as alias)
>>
>> or several variants thereof. I *think* you want to be passing QS
>> "aliases", indeed in general you want aliases AFAICT. Incidentally to turn
>> an alias into text, you can't say "path to", you just say `set aliasPath to
>> (alias as text)`, or `(POSIX path of file (alias as text))` if you want the
>> POSIX path. On the other hand "file"s *can't* be converted to text, you
>> get an error if you try—you have to say "path to". Welcome to the WTF world
>> of AppleScript.
>>
>> On Monday, July 30, 2012 1:26:30 PM UTC-4, Christopher Harwood wrote:
>>>
>>> AppleScript cannot find files inside the DT database when their paths
>>> are changed to aliases.  So, no luck there.
>>>
>>> QuickKeys is happy to run the script with the errors remaining, so I've
>>> emulated the behavior of QS by blacklisting DEVONthink from the QS trigger
>>> and whitelisting DEVONthink on an identical QK trigger.  All's well.  It
>>> would be nice to find a Quicksilver-only solution, but I have not had any
>>> luck getting working aliases anywhere within the script (or a few variants).
>>>
>>> On Saturday, June 16, 2012 1:43:22 PM UTC-5, Jon Stovell wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Right now your script tells QS to open paths (i.e. strings of text)
>>>> rather than files or aliases. AppleScript Editor is being a bit forgiving
>>>> of your error, whereas QS is more strict when it runs a script. Change your
>>>> script so that all_paths gets populated with aliases instead of paths, and
>>>> it should work.
>>>>
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