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January 8 2007 - 4:00 pm

Required Resources Error -192

Lately, I have been getting an unusual number of emails from users who are receiving a “Could not run this script because the required resources were not found. -192” error. According to Apple’s Error Numbers and Error Messages: Operating System Errors page, this is an operating system error which “occurs when AppleScript or an application requests services from the Mac OS. They are rare, and more important, there’s usually nothing you can do about them in a script.” This means that the script can’t do much to work around the error. However, I am concerned because I am seeing this error reported much more frequently now than I ever have before.

It also appears that users with Intel Macs are getting the error. The error happens with a wide variety of scripts, many of which have been quite reliable in the past, so it is difficult to pinpoint what the problem may be.

I have posted this query at Macscripter’s forum hoping that others may have seen this. If you are getting this error I would be interested in hearing from you.

January 4 2007 - 4:01 pm

NEW: Batch Trim Start or Stop Time (Seconds)

Correspondent Chris Habig submitted a script which trimmed :15 seconds from the start of selected tracks (he wanted to skip over superfluous material from the beginning of a few podcasts). I added a routine that allows the user to enter any number of seconds, and another that allowed those seconds to be used as the new Start Time or to be subtracted from the Stop Time. Result: Batch Trim Start or Stop Time (Seconds).

January 2 2007 - 4:01 pm

Apple’s AppleScripts for iTunes

Apple’s AppleScripts for iTunes are dismally out of date. I do not believe these scripts have been updated since iTunes 2.0.3 (which was released December 14, 2001)! While they contain some useful routines, many of them are hampered by a subroutine that calls Internet Explorer–whatever that is. Far be it from me to alter these scripts, but perhaps I should put together a matrix that correlates Apple’s Ancient AppleScripts with modern ones from this site?

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