On Nov 21, 2006, at 5:43 PM, Bill Steele wrote:

>> 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.
>
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?