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.


set someText to "this is a test"
set foo to choose file -->Disk:folder:test
set outFile to open for access foo with write permission
write someText to outFile starting at 0
close access outFile

Works. But...

set someText to "this is a test"
set foo to :"Disk:folder:test"
set outFile to open for access file foo with write permission
write someText to outFile starting at 0
close access outFile

--> "File Disk:folder.test wasn't found"

Any idea what's going on here?
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Bill Steele
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