Batch script breaking after 100 documents

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Hi,a batch script that I created for Illustrator will break after about 100 documents that have been processed. I am closing every document after processing and everything works fine if I process less than 100 documents at a time. What can cause this Illustrator behaviour and how can I avoid this? I am on an Mac M1 using OS Ventura and Illustrator version 28.5

hhas01 · Answer

AI crashes after opening and closing >100 docs? I remember dealing with that bug from more than a decade ago. (Using the AppleScript API, but the JSX API shares a lot of the plumbing.) Quitting and restarting AI after every 100 docs was the workaround; you can easily do that using AppleScript. (If your script is JSX, write an AppleScript helper app that performs the relaunch, then have your JSX run it via `File.execute`.)

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