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On Nov 21, 2006, at 5:43 PM, Bill Steele wrote:
>> On Nov 21, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Bill Steele wrote:
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>>> We have a G4 still running OS 9.2, used mostly for backups. I
>>> recently hooked up a LaCie external hard drive and installed the
>>> accompanying Silverlining software, and the result seems to have
>>> screwed up Applescript's ability to write to files. Scripts that
>>> used to work now give error messages.
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>> It could be a bad version of the Standard Additions. There was a
>> version in there that didn't work right and wouldn't write to a
>> file that didn't exist.
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> Actually happens even if the file does exist.
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Okay. Then its a problem with the file to alias coercion.
does this work?
set someText to "this is a test"
set foo to alias "Disk:folder:test"
set outFile to open for access file foo with write permission
write someText to outFile starting at 0
close access outFile
Does it work inside a Finder tell?
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