Jason Snell's Bad AppleScripts deal with helpful subroutines and parsing nasty file paths.

I'm trying to extract/get the annotations from a QuickTime file using AppleScript and I'm having a heck of a time doing so. tell application "QuickTime Player 7" set the_movie to document 1 tell ...

Scripting routine tasks affords powerful time-saving benefits, if you’re willing to learn a little about automation. Jason B. Jones shows a super-easy way to start learning with AppleScript.

If you work like I do, then you have a hierarchy of folders contained in a single folder that allows you to manage project files, notes, etc. Well, when it comes time to chunk those old files ...

You can modify it yourself to point to a different folder or to target different files. If you remove the qualifier "whose name begins with" and leave the line as " delete (every item of folder ...

Yesterday we posted a small AppleScript that will delete the QuickTime .plist file in question, as well as a few other preference files that may cause issues with Safari from time to time.

I have a folder of about 1800 files that I need to quickly remove files from. I have a TXT document with a list of files that I need to delete. Is there any app or applescript that I can use to ...

“AppleScript for Absolute Starters,” a free booklet written by Bert Altenburg, is designed to teach the basics of AppleScript in Mac OS X 10.2 (“Jaguar”) in a “slow-paced” way.

Everything Announced at Nvidia's 2025 Computex Press Conference Tech Computing Standalone AppleScript for removing performance bottlenecks in Safari (deletes potentially problematic .plist files) ...