Crash when renaming group via AppleScript

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I have found a crash that I believe to be reproducible (it is on my machine anyway).

It occurs when:

  1. Attempting to rename a group via AppleScript
  2. A child of that group is currently selected
  3. That child is a YAML file
set newName to "test"

tell application id "DNtp"

	set s to selection
	set r to item 1 of s
	
	set g to first parent of r
	set name of g to newName

end tell

In other words, applying this code to this selection will crash.

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DEVONthink shows the beachball of doom, after two minutes “DEVONthink got an error: AppleEvent timed out” is returned to the script runner, but DEVONthink does not recover.

Note that if the markdown file is selected, the script runs without a problem.

I don’t know if this is related, but it could be: I have tried making YAML files editable within DEVONthink using the AdditionalPlainTextExtensions hidden preference. According to this, they should be editable:

* defaults read com.devontechnologies.think AdditionalPlainTextExtensions
.taskpaper.yaml.yml.json

However, YAML files are still read-only for me. I tried rebuilding the database and it made no difference. Same with re-importing the files.

4.0.1 on 15.5

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Please choose Help > Report Bug while pressing the Option modifier key to start a support ticket, thanks.

P.S: The first parent is not necessarily a group, the property location group is recommended instead.

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You might want to check what the first parent of your record is – if it’s the root of the database, you can’t rename it.
And perhaps use selected records instead of selection (that’s just a general suggestion, not related to this script directly).

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Will do.

Good point, thanks. The script that I discovered this problem in originally was getting the group from its path, but I simplified things in order to check that the problem was reproducible.

It’s not the root in this case, but thanks for the suggestion.

Thanks for this also.

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You need to specify the type as -string before you add the extension(s).

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