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Connection is invalid in Applescript (5 posts)

• Started 18 years ago by Steve-1205
• Latest reply 18 years ago from Steve-1205

• Steve-1205 Member

  I teach at a small university and use Fetch in and Applescript to FTP copies of my course gradebooks to a Web server. This allows the students to keep up with their progress during the term. (The students access their grades through a PERL script that requires a password and restricts their access to only their grades.)

  The Applescript code to transfer the files is:

  tell application "Fetch"
  activate
  make new transfer window at beginning with properties {hostname:"server.name.edu", username:"usernamehere", password:"passwd-here", initial folder:"/vault"}
  put into transfer window "server.name.edu" item alias "Dr. Steve's HD:Users:zzzz:Desktop:class-gb.txt"
  quit
  end tell

  This worked well in Fetch v.4. Fetch 5 gives me a "Connection is invalid" error message that highlights the QUIT command above.

  Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong?

  Thanks for your help.

  //steve

  Posted 18 years ago #

• Steve-1205 Member

  While trying to figure out my wayward path with this problem, I looked at the "Event Log" in Applescript. It reported:

  quit
  current application
  "Fetch 4.0.3 got an error: Connection is invalid."

  I'm using Fetch 5.02, not version 4.

  I upgraded by moving Fetch 5 to my applications folder, replacing the Fetch icon on my dock and trashing my copy of Fetch version 4.

  Could this error be because I need to change the "preferences" files for Fetch?

  Thanks for your help.

  //steve

  Posted 18 years ago #

• Steve-1205 Member

  To make things simple, I stripped the Applescript to:

  tell application "Fetch"
  activate
  quit
  end tell

  When this runs, the Applescript error log returns:

  tell Application "Fetch"
  activate
  current application
  activate
  quit
  current application
  "Fetch 4.0.3 got an error: Connection is invalid."

  Before running this script, I trashed the Fetch application (version 5.02--version 4 was trashed when I installed version 5) plus the Fetch Cache, Fetch Prefs and Fetch Shortcuts files from the library.

  I don't understand why I cannot get Applescript to quit Fetch without the "Connection is invalid" message and why Fetch 4.0.3 gets this message.

  Any ideas? Does the "quit" command still work in Applescript?

  //steve

  Posted 18 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  That's a bug in Fetch. You can work around it by replacing the quit line with this:

  try
  quit
  end try

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 18 years ago #

• Steve-1205 Member

  Cool!

  That is the answer!

  Thanks.

  //steve

  Posted 18 years ago #