http://automatorworld.com/archives/quick-editing-automator-applications/ Better Living Through Macintosh Scripting Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:23:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://automatorworld.com/archives/quick-editing-automator-applications/#comment-81503 Brandon Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:31:19 +0000 http://www.automatorworld.com/?p=168#comment-81503 <p>That's not a bug: I think you missed the point of applications: When you double click on any other application, it EXECUTES. Applications are sometimes (on that other platform, anyway) referred to as "executables". The point of saving it as an application is that it acts like an application rather than as a document. If you opened it in Automator then it would be being treated as a document, not as an app.</p> That’s not a bug: I think you missed the point of applications: When you double click on any other application, it EXECUTES. Applications are sometimes (on that other platform, anyway) referred to as “executables”. The point of saving it as an application is that it acts like an application rather than as a document. If you opened it in Automator then it would be being treated as a document, not as an app.

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