>On Nov 21, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Bill Steele wrote:
>
>>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.
>>
>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.

Actually happens even if the file does exist.


>
>>
>>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"
>also this line doesn't compile
>
>>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"
>
>I had this happen on a few machines and wound up having to make sure 
>to always have a file around to work on.


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