macOS Applescript saved as read-only...

[LineMastaJorbob]

Hi! This is my first thread here so please excuse me if this is in the wrong section, but I was just wondering if there was a way to make a script that you saved not run-only... I've been working on this project and then I relized that I saved it a run-only script! I nearly teared my hair out! Anyways... I was just wondering if there was ANY way at all to get my work back...

 

[mkrishnan]

Hmmm, I think that when you save a run-only, only the compiled code is saved, with no source. I'm not sure that there's a way to backtrack, short of a decompiler (and I'm not aware of one). But I'd be happy to be wrong!

 

[LineMastaJorbob]

Hmmm, I think that when you save a run-only, only the compiled code is saved, with no source. I'm not sure that there's a way to backtrack, short of a decompiler (and I'm not aware of one). But I'd be happy to be wrong!

OK... Thanx... I REALLY do hope your wrong (no offense...)

 

[lancestraz]

This happened to me once. I googled around but never found a solution.
I ended up having to rewriting the whole thing.

 

[Sayer]

From now on save original scripts as text file and create a compiled *copy* so you don't lose the source (and you can easily use a Source Code Management (SCM) setup on plain text files).

 

[MongoTheGeek]

According to people at Apple its impossible.

Some information can be pulled out but not edited. Subroutines can be extracted and used.

 

[SC68Cal]

Once it's a read-only, you're screwed unless you can find an applescript decompiler. Even then, you're not going to recover a 100% original.