Avoiding AppleEvent Timed Out Error -1712

Question

Hey all I am relatively new to applescsripting.  I have come up with the below applescript for a project here at work.  Basically this applescript is used to open pdfs in full screen mode, display them for set lenght of time and rotate continously. It is intended for this script to never stop unless the machine is rebooted.  Every 30 minutes or so, the script closes the pdf windows and goes out to a share drive to get updated copies, that it then copies to local drive, replacing the ones there already.
My question or problem is thus, I have been getting Appleevent Timed out Errors and would like to know the best way to avoid or deal with these and have script to either start over or continue executing but not just stop dead in its tracks.  The last line I got an AppleEvent Timed out error on was
execute menu item "FullScreenMode"
but i have received it elsewhere in the script also.
Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.
set intcount to 0
tell application "Adobe Acrobat Pro"
          execute menu item "FullScreenMode"
          repeat
                    try
                              tell application "Finder"
                                        set intcount to intcount + 1
                                        set source to "Operations:Production_Schedule_pdf:PSchedule.pdf"
                                        set source2 to "Production:Maintenance Planner (C.Slasor):Presentations_pdf:DowntimeData.pdf"
                                        set source3 to "Production:Maintenance Planner (C.Slasor):Presentations_pdf:MaintSchedule.pdf"
                                        set home_path to home as text
                                        set destination to home_path & "Documents:"
                                        if intcount = 15 then
                                                  duplicate file source to folder destination with replacing
                                                  duplicate file source2 to folder destination with replacing
                                                  duplicate file source3 to folder destination with replacing
                                                  set intcount to 1
                                        end if
                              end tell
                    on error
                              rotateLocally()
                    end try
                    tell application "Adobe Acrobat Pro"
                              open ("/Users/drivord/Documents/PSchedule.pdf")
                              if intcount = 1 then
                                        execute menu item "FullScreenMode"
                              end if
                              delay 60
                              if intcount = 14 then
                                        close front document
                              end if
                              open ("/Users/drivord/Documents/MaintSchedule.pdf")
                              delay 30
                              if intcount = 14 then
                                        close front document
                              end if
                              open ("/Users/drivord/Documents/DowntimeData.pdf")
                              delay 30
                              if intcount = 14 then
                                        close front document
                              end if
                    end tell
          end repeat
end tell
on error the error_message number the error_number from the offending_object
          if the error_number is equal to 128 then
                    close front window
                    tell application "Adobe Acrobat Pro"
                              execute menu item "FullScreenMode"
                              repeat
                                        open ("/Users/drivord/Documents/PSchedule.pdf")
                                        delay 60
                                        open ("/Users/drivord/Documents/MaintSchedule.pdf")
                                        delay 30
                                        open ("/Users/drivord/Documents/DowntimeData.pdf")
                                        delay 30
                              end repeat
                    end tell
          else
                    -- An unknown error occurred. Resignal, so the caller
                    -- can handle it, or AppleScript can display the number.
                    set the error_text to "Error: " & the error_number & ". " & the error_message
                    -- the following line evokes the sub-routine to write the error into an error log created on the desktop
                    -- if the file "Script Error Log.txt" already exists, it will add one line to the log
                    my write_error_log(the error_text)
                    my send_error_email(the error_text)
          end if
on rotateLocally()
          close front window
          tell application "Adobe Acrobat Pro"
                    execute menu item "FullScreenMode"
                    repeat
                              open ("/Users/drivord/Documents/PSchedule.pdf")
                              delay 60
                              open ("/Users/drivord/Documents/MaintSchedule.pdf")
                              delay 30
                              open ("/Users/drivord/Documents/DowntimeData.pdf")
                              delay 30
                    end repeat
          end tell
end rotateLocally
on write_error_log(this_error)
          set the error_log to ((path to desktop) as text) & "MAC015 Error Log.txt"
          try
                    open for access file the error_log with write permission
                    write (this_error & return) to file the error_log starting at eof
                    close access file the error_log
          on error
                    try
                              close access file the error_log
                    end try
          end try
end write_error_log
on send_error_email(this_error)
          set the_subject to "mac15 Monitor error"
          set the_body to this_error
          (*  send email using Mail
          tell application "Mail"
                    tell new_message
                              --add recipients
                              make new to recipient at end with properties ¬
                                        {name:"Ken", address:"[email protected]"}
                              make new cc recipient at end with properties ¬
                                        {name:"Doug", address:"[email protected]"}
                              send
                    end tell
          end tell
          tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
                    set OutgoingEmail to make new outgoing message with properties {subject:the_subject, content:this_error}
                    make new recipient at OutgoingEmail with properties {email address:{name:"Ken", address:"[email protected]"}}
                    make new cc recipient at OutgoingEmail with properties {email address:{name:"Doug", address:"[email protected]"}}
                    send message id (id of OutgoingEmail)
          end tell
end send_error_email

Answer 1

You already had one solution, the try statement
try
-- your statement here.
execute menu item "FullScreenMode"
on error errorMsg
log "got error >" & errorMsg & "< "
display dialog " error. >" & errorMsg giving up after 20
end try
The default time for an application to respond to a command is two minutes.
You can change this time via with timeout
I didn't examine your script to find the slow down place, but as an example.
  tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
     with timeout of 600 seconds
                    set OutgoingEmail to make new outgoing message with properties {subject:the_subject, content:this_error}
     end timeout
  end tell