Open Finder Selection in BBEdit 15

Questions & Suggestions
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This simple action worked fine with BBEdit 14 in Ventura but with BBEdit 15 (and Ventura 13.6.4) it only opens the Finder selection if BBEdit is the default application.

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If the default application is not BBEdit (say Safari or Xcode), Finder reports it can't open the file with a -128 error ("Application 'BBEdit' can't be opened"). And it reports that twice.

I use this action to avoid opening hypertext files in a browser or code in Xcode to make quick edits. Anyone know a workaround? TIA

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Well, fortunately BBEdit doesn't need the Finder. You can run it from the shell. So this works:

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And now the big reveal: why this problem occurred in the first place.

I'm running BBEdit 15 as 'BBEdit' while preserving my previous version as 'BBEdit 14' in case I need to revert. Open Finder Selection apparently tries them both, which is why I get two error messages from the Finder.

When I compressed BBEdit 14, the problem went away. Just one BBEdit.

Sort of surprised that selecting BBEdit in the Open Finder Selection would try BBEdit 14 as well.

Update: Well, that wasn't it after all. I've reverted to my workaround.

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