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As I mentioned in my comment, what you're trying to do is a system wide event that you want activated by a keyboard shortcut. These factors combine to reduce the overall response time. To help reduc …

appears, ensure that "No input" is selected from the Service receives drop-down list Ensure the In drop-down list is showing "Any application" In the second column containing the long list, find "Run AppleScript … " and double-click on it This will add the Run AppleScript window on the right Now, replace the (* Your script goes here *) with the script you want Save the service using a meaningful name (e.g. …

Since you've referenced Adobe products (and Photoshop specifically) in your question/comments, I'll refer to those here. There is really nothing inherently wrong with the script - it's just that some …

My approach would be to put some of your code into a try block and also use on error to ignore that specific error message, but to still display a message if it encounters a different error instead. …

I'm in front of a Mac again and gave your code a go and also got the same error, so it's probably somewhat misleading in terms of what it actually means. However, I did play around with your script a …

appears, ensure that "No input" is selected from the Service receives drop-down list Ensure the In drop-down list is showing "Any application" In the second column containing the long list, find "Run AppleScript … " and double-click on it This will add the Run AppleScript window on the right Now, replace the (* Your script goes here *) with the following script1: tell application "Finder" to set frontmost to true …

You haven't specified the version of macOS or Safari you're running, but usually you would do this: In the Finder, go to the top level of your Mac's hard drive (or SSD) Navigate to /System/Library/C …

My hope is that doing this will make it easier to get the code right within AppleScript, so I'm sharing the Visual Basic code in case it helps someone else to get an AppleScript version working - not that … I imagine trying to cover the whole sheet will be a problem within AppleSCript as well. …

I think the problem you're having is that you've misunderstood what is actually going on. Let me try to explain... The first question to answer is why were the windows missing from your first screens …

Not the answer you're looking for, but there's no way to use subaddressing from Apple Mail in the way you're after. iCloud itself does support the overall functionality via email aliases, but this i …

I'm not in front of a Mac at the moment, so can't test this, but what happens if you try the following: tell application "Music" set newFile to (choose file with prompt "Select track you want to …

In the second column containing the long list, find "Run AppleScript" and double-click on it. This will add the Run AppleScript window on the right. …

Without the whole script (and the context behind this) it's a bit hard to be sure about an answer - especially an efficient one. Nevertheless, below is something that may help (although I'm not in fr …

appears, ensure that "No input" is selected from the Service receives drop-down list Ensure the In drop-down list is showing "Any application" In the second column containing the long list, find "Run AppleScript … " and double-click on it This will add the Run AppleScript window on the right Now, replace the (* Your script goes here *) with the script you want Save the service using a meaningful name (e.g. …

In summary, to create a keyboard shortcut to run your Automator service you will need to use: Automator to create your service so that it'll work the way you want System Preferences to assign a keyb …