Just wanted to quickly say thanks for your response. I've managed to get myself swamped at the moment so I'll try this tomorrow let you know how it went.

Hmm - this doesn't seem to be working for me :-(. The code runs and does what it's supposed to do, but I never see a progress meter. Here's the structure of what I made: tell application "Photos" do some stuff, including set nPhotos end tell set progress total steps to nPhotos set progress completed steps to 0 set progress description to "FILENAME TO DATE AND TITLE:" repeat with i from 1 to nPhotos set progress additional description to "Processing image " & i & " of " & nPhotos tell application "Photos" do some more stuff end tell set progress completed steps to i end repeat return sorry about all the double-line spacing. For some reason all single carriage returns in by responses are ignored and what I add another I end up double line spacings. Quite annoying...

I just noticed something. I've been saving this AppleScript as a workflow in Automator so that it's accessed via the Services menu. When I run it that way I do NOT get a progress meter. However, if I save the AppleScript as a stand alone app and run it that way I DO get a progress meter. Is there any way to make the progress meter appear if initiated from the Services menu?

Thanks red_menace - that does look promising. I'm not a swift guy, but I did follow your link for swift-progress to the github website and in the readme.md page there is a link to download a build of the project, but sadly the link is dead/broken. Is there another place to get it? I don't know how to build it myself :-(. Sorry about all the necessary spoon-feeding. I did also try SKProgressbar - I tracked down version 2.0 but I can't get it to run - even if I right click on it and select Open. I get a dialog box saying: “SKProgressBar” can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software.

I had already found that link - it contained the 2.0 version that I mentioned couldn't be opened. Sigh - I'm kind of peeved at Apple that such a simple thing as a progress meter is so poorly supported and troublesome in AppleScript. This is something that should have been nailed down literally decades ago.