Is there a way to extract contents from AppleScript file without using AppleScript editor?

Question

I have a bunch of applescript files I need to run but some that were running yesterday are not running today. Applescript is showing me this beautiful message.

When this message is shown, console shows this message: 04/06/14 11:32:44,079 xpcd[324]: Info.plist does not contain an XPCService dictionary: /System/Library/Frameworks/Security.framework/XPCServices/SecurityAgent.xpc

The problem is probably with applescript editor, because I have restored several copies of the script with different dates and none opens. Some other scripts open, but not this.

Is there a way t extract the contents of this file to a TXT so I can try to recreate the script?

thanks

NOTE: I have verified now that the scripts are not corrupted by running them from command line using osascript.

Answer 1

You cannot open a .scpt file with any editor! It is a compiled version of the script, not text, and it will not open with any editor.

Case in point, here is what happens when I try to view the file in Terminal...

OSX comes with osadecompile that will extract the source code of a compiled script .scpt file.

Here is an example...

$ osadecompile args2.scpt 
on run argv
    set argc to 0
    try
        set argc to (count of argv)
    end try
    display dialog ("Argument Count: " & argc as string)
end run