Photoshop crash on opening dictionary

AppleScript
#1

I fired up Script Debugger this morning to figure out what the correct reference is for the IPTC field “Transmission Reference.” But every time I try to get to the Dictionary, Photoshop crashes over and over again. Crash, restart, crash, restart, crash… With me doing nothing.

This is the error message:

The application “Adobe Photoshop CC 2015.5.app” appears to have crashed, responding to the following Apple Event:

AppleScript: get preferences folder

AEPrint: ‘core’‘getd’{ ‘----’:'obj '{ ‘want’:‘prop’, ‘from’:null(), ‘form’:‘prop’, ‘seld’:‘prfl’ } }

Ideas?

#2

For the syntax, try this:

tell application id "8BIM"
set transRef to (transmission reference of info of current document)
end tell

For the crash, have you reloaded the dictionary?

:wink:

#3

I’m not able to reproduce the crash you are experiencing. I can safely use the explorer to view transmission reference of info of current document:

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Looks like the value of transmission reference in my document is a simple string. How do I reproduce the data you are using?

Unfortunately this is probably a bug you are going to have to report to Adobe in the hope they will fix it in some future version of Photoshop.

#4

Just in case…

Go to Preferences -> Dictionary and click Clear Cache. Then try again.

#5

Thanks for the replies, and sorry for the delay. Went out of town. I’ll check Monday.