To safely use the Eyedropper tool with Appearance mode enabled to apply styles only to the paths and not to the group. Adobe Illustrator script

PartialPathDeselection.jsx

/*
  Recursively deselects partial paths within the selected group to safely use the Eyedropper tool 
  with Appearance mode enabled to apply styles only to the paths and not to the group
  Author: Sergey Osokin, email: [email protected]
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//@target illustrator
preferences.setBooleanPreference('ShowExternalJSXWarning', false); // Fix drag and drop a .jsx file

function main () {
  if (!/illustrator/i.test(app.name)) {
    alert('Wrong application\nRun script from Adobe Illustrator', 'Script error');
    return false;
  }

  if (!app.documents.length) {
    alert('No documents\nOpen a document and try again', 'Script error');
    return;
  }

  if (!app.selection.length || selection.typename === 'TextRange') {
    alert('Few objects are selected\nPlease select at least one group and try again', 'Script error');
    return;
  }

  var paths = getPaths(app.selection);
  if (!paths.length) return;

  for (var i = 0, len = paths.length; i < len; i++) {
    if (!paths[i].hasOwnProperty('pathPoints')) continue;
    // Deselect one path point
    paths[i].pathPoints[0].selected = PathPointSelection.NOSELECTION;
  }
}

// Get paths from selection
function getPaths(coll) {
  var paths = [];
  for (var i = 0; i < coll.length; i++) {
    var item = coll[i];
    if (item.pageItems && item.pageItems.length) {
      paths = [].concat(paths, getPaths(item.pageItems));
    } else if (/compound/i.test(item.typename) && item.pathItems.length) {
      paths = [].concat(paths, getPaths(item.pathItems));
    } else if (/pathitem/i.test(item.typename)) {
      paths.push(item);
    }
  }
  return paths;
}

// Run script
try {
  main();
} catch (err) {}

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