"Cannot Activate Application" error with Evernote and KM 7

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Hey Guys,

Hopefully Peter has ironed this out in KM 7.0.1, but there is some general flakiness in Yosemite when it comes to activating applications. I’ve been hearing this since 10.10 came out, and now I’ve upgraded I’ve seen it. Unfortunately I haven’t established any pattern as yet.

One of the accepted workarounds is:

tell application "System Events"
  if quit delay ≠ 0 then set quit delay to 0
  tell application process "BBEdit"
    set frontmost to true
  end tell
end tell

Be sure to note the difference between application “System Events” and application process “BBEdit”. Many people forget to add “process” and wonder why it fails to work.

-Chris

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