Accordance Services Collection now available

[Joe Weaks]

I am finally able to release to the general user base the Accordance Services Collection. These work using new features available in Snow Leopard to give you global access to your modules, even using global keyboard shortcuts that you assign.

More info can be found here: http://tiny.cc/AccServ

It includes a short video that demonstrates how the Services work.

[Levi Durfey]

Nice, I really like these services. Thanks Joe.

[Helen Brown]

Thanks, Joe, for providing these useful add-ons to Accordance users. And congratulations on the successful defense of your thesis, and thus your acquisition of the esteemed title of Doctor.

[RogueMonk]

Thanks for these. I have a couple of questions:

 

1.) How do I remove them? I deleted the scripts and services folders that I created, and all the associated files. But the services still show up in System Preferences/Keyboard/Services.

2.) I couldn't seem to use the services in MS Word. Did I do something wrong?

 

 

Thanks!

[Joe Weaks]

1.) How do I remove them? I deleted the scripts and services folders that I created, and all the associated files. But the services still show up in System Preferences/Keyboard/Services.

2.) I couldn't seem to use the services in MS Word. Did I do something wrong?

1. Just reverse the installation. Delete the files is all you need to do. As the video shows, you can also disable Services in the Keyboard System preferences.

2. There are some older software developed under the Carbon framework that have not enabled using OSX Services. Microsoft Word is one of those... Accordance used to be one of those.

[RogueMonk]

1. Just reverse the installation. Delete the files is all you need to do. As the video shows, you can also disable Services in the Keyboard System preferences.

That is what I did. But they still show up in the Keyboard System Pref and in the services of the applications. If I try and run it from an application nothing happens (as the files are all deleted).

[Joe Weaks]

That is what I did. But they still show up in the Keyboard System Pref and in the services of the applications. If I try and run it from an application nothing happens (as the files are all deleted).

Quitting and restarting the app should refresh the menu for that app, but restarting your system definitely will. They are harmless automator workflows. No worries. Don't take up any system memory even when in Services folder.

[RogueMonk]

Quitting and restarting the app should refresh the menu for that app, but restarting your system definitely will. They are harmless automator workflows. No worries. Don't take up any system memory even when in Services folder.

Did all that. They are still showing up in the apps and in the system pref/keyboard/keyboard shortcuts/services.

 

Did a double check, and the folders and files created originally are all properly deleted (scripts & services).

 

Why would they still show up (of course they don't work without the corresponding files)?

 

Quitting and restarting the app should refresh the menu for that app, but restarting your system definitely will. They are harmless automator workflows. No worries. Don't take up any system memory even when in Services folder.

Did all that. They are still showing up in the apps and in the system pref/keyboard/keyboard shortcuts/services.

 

Did a double check, and the folders and files created originally are all properly deleted (scripts & services).

 

Why would they still show up (of course they don't work without the corresponding files)?

[Joe Weaks]

I simply can not repeat this. There's something you're missing.

As soon as I drag the Service workflows back out of the ~/Library/Services folder just out onto the Desktop and then go back in to TextEdit, those Services disappear from the services menu and from the Services list in the Keyboard preferences. Without even quitting and restarting anything.

[Steve Lo Vullo]

Joe, the same thing is happening on my computer.

[Joe Weaks]

If you have removed the files and trashed them, their appearance in the menu still simply means that a .plist file is not updating as it should. It is of no consequence, and must surely eventually update itself at some point.

 

Since two of you are having the bug, maybe you can find something about it by googling. It is a problem on your system.

The documented way to uninstall Service workflows is simply to drag them out of ~/Library/Services.

 

Have you logged out and back in?

Have you tried disabling (un-checking) the Services in the Keyboard pref pane?

Then try logging out and then restarting to see if your plist file updates.

Is your Snow Leopard install a clean install or might it have cluttered LSxxx pref files?

[RogueMonk]

Yup. Done all those things--each of them several times. Still there.

 

I even methodically "reinstalled" everything and then "uninstalled" them again. Still there.

 

 

 

Thanks.

[Joel Brown]

I wonder if they weren't installed in multiple places on accident? If they are uninstalled, but still showing up in Services, do they work? If they work even after being uninstalled, that means the code is being read from somewhere. Perhaps they got copied to your /Library/Services in addition to ~/Library/Services.

[RogueMonk]

I wonder if they weren't installed in multiple places on accident? If they are uninstalled, but still showing up in Services, do they work? If they work even after being uninstalled, that means the code is being read from somewhere. Perhaps they got copied to your /Library/Services in addition to ~/Library/Services.

No, they don't work. If I try to use them, I get the error: "Failed to read workflow file."

 

I checked in the library/services and nothing.

 

A conundrum.

[Joe Weaks]

The plist file that the Services menu uses to display the list of Services is not updating as it should. It is created dynamically as an application accesses the Services menu. This is the kind of thing that happens with corrupt pref files, etc.

Please go though some of the questions I asked. We can follow up in private if you prefer.

1. Do the Services show in the Services preferences in the Keyboard System Pref panel? If so, then uncheck them, and see if they no longer appear in the Services submenus. That being the case, you're basically done until you track down the preference corruption you have.

2. What's the nature of your OSX install? New computer purchase with fresh install of Snow Leopard? Older machine with Snow Leopard installed with clean install wiping previous system, or a migration?

3. Are the Services showing up in every app even after removing them? Safari, TextEdit, Pages, Accordance, etc?

 

Joe

[Ed Cross]

Hi Joe,

 

Version 9 seems to have broken the services that you developed. Kind of got used to using them and now missing their functionality. Any idea as to what to do to repair them?

 

The "Insert KJV" workflow opens Accordance, but then gives the error; "Accordance got an error: connection is invalid."

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Pastor Ed Cross