Regarding the "Structure has been changed to better serve clients…" oddity:

We decided to keep the automatic adjustment of Structure when Clients are changed, but found that in the previous version it was adjusting even if the user had not touched the Clients.  So it would keep trying to adjust forever, whenever you closed the document, until you relented and allowed the document to be saved with the adjustment.  That has now been corrected in BookMacster 1.1.21.  It will only adjust Structure if you have actually changed a Client in the current session.

BookMacster 1.1.21 is now available to anyone using the beta version 1.1.x.  If you don't get it when you click Check for Update, then in the menu click Preferences ▸ Updates and make sure that the Beta box is checked.

If you are still using BookMacster 1.0.x, the new Preferences ▸ Updates feature is not available.  In that case you may download it manually from here:

http://sheepsystems.com/bookmacster/beta/BookMacster.zip

Rob Lewis wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2010 at 4:59pm:
Yes.

Rob Lewis wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2010 at 4:59pm:
Well, it's actually not required, but in this version, it does.  We've had some back and forth on that.

Rob Lewis wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2010 at 4:59pm:
Yes, we've been needing to put some more thought into this.  Thanks for providing a concise description and attaching the sample file.

I mean an update to fix the bug, which turned out to be quite a bugger.  Anyhow, it is apparently fixed in our new version, BookMacster 1.1.19.  Anyhow, 1.1.19 definitely opens the two files we got in Rob's package.

To get version 1.1.19, launch BookMacster and in the menu click BookMacster ▸ Check for Update.  If that doesn't find 1.1.19, then check your Preferences in the Updates tab and make sure you've got the "Beta" option checked ON.

Thanks, Rob.  We got the data and reproduced the problem.  It's a bug which can affect opening Bookmarkshelf documents produced by old versions of BookMacster.  It's kind of involved, though, so we won't have an update until tomorrow.

Yes, that Trouble Zipper script started a few years ago as a quick hack to pick up bookmarks files from a novice user, but now it's such a great tattle-tale that our apps can't hide any misbehaviors from us.  Definitely pushing the envelope of AppleScript, so that if it didn't work so damned good, it would be fun to rewrite it as a "real" app.  Too many actual issues to work on, though.

Hello Rob,

Such a silent failure is not by design.  And it must have found the file; otherwise it could not have been "Processing" it.  But since the windows don't open, maybe when the BookMacster update was copied, the resource file needed to create the window got left behind.  I've seen it happen.  Your Console Log would have a message something like "Couldn't load nib Bkmslf.nib".  In that case, the solution is to redownload and, when copying, make sure to wait until it finishes.

If that's not the problem, or if you'd rather have us check it out, when you have a few minutes please send me the results from our Trouble Zipper.  To do this, in BookMacster, click in the menu Help ▸ Trouble Zipper.  It takes a few seconds to download.  Bookmarks files probably won't be useful in this case, but do answer affirmatively to Question F, if it finds any Bookmarkshelf files.