Please activate the crash reporter (see preferences of Console application). Then you’ll find a log file in the folder ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter after the next crash containing useful information to fix this.
I do hope DEVONthink SE will be released soon. It is one of the few pieces of software (along with DEVONagent and the others, of course) that I’m still awaiting “with baited breath” (which is both a compliment, request, and reprimand!).
Sorry for the delay but we’ve been working on our kernel framework for the last few weeks trying to fix a severe, VERY rare and random bug. Without success so far although we’ve thrown hundreds of gigabytes into DEVONthink. As long as this bug is not fixed, everything else is currently halted. Hopefully v1.5.4 will be available sooner than later.
If you do that scripting support right (and it sounds like you’re working hard at it), you’ll get armies of AppleScripters. I’d be glad to lead the charge. If I had a database, email, text-formatting, and web/ftp tool that were all completely scriptable, I’d feel like I was the ruler of the world (of information).
Seriously, right now it doesn’t feel like I have even one of those, although the command-line tool ‘curl’ does a lot of the web/ftp part, when combined with the ‘do shell script’ command. I develop in FileMaker, but their OSA scripting support is actually getting worse (i.e. commands that used to work, and are still listed is usable, often fail for no reason).
Are any of your developers on the applescript-users or MacScript mailing list? Lot’s of good info there, including gripes about how NOT to support scripting.
Hmm. Have you read some good explanations of how-to versus how-not-to implement AppleEvent support and dictionaries? This seems like a silly question, but there has been some abominable scripting support built into many applications over the years. There are quite a few things to keep in mind.