I did that and it stopped crashing. I also commented out --set annot2 to "Copyright"

I drag 100 files in, it does about 3-4 files then stops.

That's strange. I've just duplicated it on mine. For some reason, Quicktime quits. I'll see what I can do.

It's definitely Quicktime unexpectedly quitting. I have been able to get it to do all of the 9 copies I made of the file, but with no significant changes to my code. Then I try it a second time and it crashes on the third file!

Here's the latest. Quicktime is crashing on opening the file. The error log says:
Command: QuickTime Player
Path: /Applications/QuickTime Player.app/Contents/MacOS/QuickTime Player
Version: 6.5.2 (6.5.2)
PID: 2713
Thread: 0

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x0000002c

What's really strange about this is that is appears to be random, so I doubt it's the Applescript code. Anybody have any ideas?

The code:

on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items
try
tell application "Finder"
set the folder_name to the name of this_folder
set l to the length of folder_name
set cpya to folder of this_folder
set cpy to ((cpya as string) & folder_name) as string
display dialog cpy
set ai to length of cpy
set annot1 to "Full Name"
set annot2 to "Copyright"
end tell
repeat with aItem in added_items
set lai to aItem as string
set la to length of lai
set adj to ai + 2
set fl to characters adj through la of lai as string
set fnm to cpy & "2:" & fl as string
tell application "Finder" to open aItem
tell application "QuickTime Player"
delete annotations in movie 1
save movie 1 in fnm
close movie 1 saving no
quit "QuickTime Player"
end tell
end repeat
end try
end adding folder items to

Again, worked a couple of times then, this time, got an unexpected error -600

Is it possible to make a droplet and save to another folder? I can hard-code in the location.

That's what the lines:

set fnm to cpy & "2:" & fl as string
and
save movie 1 in fnm

are for. It's to change the path from "~:folder:filename" to "!:folder2:filename"

Anyway, the problem is that Quicktime is crashing on opening the file, not saving it. It's weird because this test script to open and close each file, works:

on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items
try
tell application "Finder"
repeat with aItem in added_items
open aItem
tell application "QuickTime Player"
close movie 1 saving no
end tell

end repeat
end tell
end try
end adding folder items to

I think I've found the problem, although I don't yet have a solution. It seems that files with spaces in their names often affect not their own processing, but the next file to be opened and then saved. I think it's a bug in Applescript, because it doesn't always happen, especially if there is a delay such as that caused by a dialog or the command: delay 1



on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items
tell application "Finder"
repeat with aItem in added_items
set nxtone to aItem as string
set lnxt to the length of nxtone
set flname to name of aItem as string
set lfln to length of flname
set ll to lfln as text
--activate
--display dialog "#" & flname & "#"
delay 1
open aItem
set adj to lnxt - lfln - 1
set cpy to characters 1 through adj of nxtone as string
set fnm to cpy & "2:" & flname as string
tell application "QuickTime Player"
delete annotations in movie 1
save movie 1 in fnm
close movie 1 saving no
end tell
end repeat
end tell
end adding folder items to