Who is running an Applescript if it is called from the script menu?

DEVONthink Automation
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I have a long running script which I start from the Script menu (the one to the left of the DT3 Help menu).

After a while it looks like it has stalled, but I don’t know how to check. Who is running that script? Can I find it via ps or in the Activity Monitor?

Also, all other scripts under the Script menu stay grayed out. The only way I could get the entries back to normal is quitting DT3. Is there a gentler way to do this (e.g. killing just the script)?

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DEVONthink only runs on script at a time, hence the others can’t be run.

What’s your code doing?

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The code has a list of URLs and for each of the URLs the script does a search in DT3 and if there’s no document found it creates a webarchive in a specific group. I guess this script sometimes starts to hang if the download does not complete in 60sec…

I can live with that (because I can just restart the script), but I would like to find a smoother way to kill the script. So who is running the script: DT3 directly or Applescript Runner?

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DEVONthink 3. Could you please post the code of the script?

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Thanks.

1) To your answer: So DT is running the script. Does DT has away to tell the running script to quit (similar to Applescript Runner)?

2) To your question: The script is called PBImport.scpt and you can download it here. It is a custom version of the Pinboard Importer (in development - the filing of an additional bookmark into the subgroup /Pinboard/elsewhere/ for found pages doesn’t work yet as expected).

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No.

I couldn’t spot any issues immediately. How many items does your Pinboard account contain? However, you could add a timeout to the script by enclosing the System Events block like this:

with timeout of 60 seconds
	tell application "System Events"
		...
	end tell
end timeout
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Will try the with timeout… The hanging is really strange. Would like to get to the bottom of it!

I have 5000 plus items in Pinboard, so I don’t expect this will run through in only one or two goes. :slight_smile:

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I’ve started using with timeout (with a 10min timeout) - and it works pretty well: All the downloads seem to finish now.

Thanks for the tip!